A Flexible Hardware Platform for Applications in Power Electronics Research and Education

Author

Viola, Julio ; Restrepo, Jose ; Quizhpi, Flavio ; Gimenez, Maria I. ; Aller, Jose ; Guzman, Victor ; Bueno, Alexander

Author_Institution

Prometeo Project, Caracas, Venezuela

fYear

2014

Firstpage

226

Lastpage

232

Abstract

This work presents the design and development of a three-phase multilevel hardware platform for applications in power electronics. The emphasis of the proposed converter is in its flexibility to allow rapid set-ups of different experiments typically required in power electronics teaching and research. The proposed converter uses a cascaded H-bridge topology whereby multilevel operation with up to 9 voltage levels can be obtained. The selected power stage topology as well as the control, drivers and sensors boards designs, enable the platform to operate in multiple configurations, namely as inverter, controlled rectifier or active power filter, for one, two or three-phase systems.

Keywords

active filters; bridge circuits; cascade networks; control engineering education; driver circuits; invertors; power convertors; power electronics; power engineering education; power filters; rectifiers; research and development; sensors; active power filter; cascaded H-bridge topology; controlled rectifier; flexible hardware platform; inverter; power electronics education; power electronics research; power electronics teaching; power stage topology; sensors board designs; three-phase multilevel hardware platform; three-phase systems; two-phase systems; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware; Power electronics; Sensors; Topology; Voltage control; Voltage measurement; Electronics engineering education; multilevel converter; power electronics; research;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical Power and Energy Conference (EPEC), 2014 IEEE

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EPEC.2014.6

Filename

7051705