A DSP-based real-time simulation equipment for fast motor control development

This work presents a rapid motor control prototyping technique based on the development of a real-time simulation environment structured on a DSP architecture. The considered case study refers to an Interior Permanent Magnet synchronous motor (IPM) drive arranging a field oriented speed control with the optimization of the torque-to-current ratio and the decoupling of the feeding voltages. The main topics of this work are related with the construction of the real-time simulation platform and with the implementation issues coming from the use of a hardware DSP-based setup. In particular it will be shown how such a kind of simulation architecture can model very closely the real behaviour of a controlled IPM drive and consequently how it can be used to properly tune the control algorithm without the needing of using the real motor drive saving this way a lot of deployment time.