Motor Control Design and Prototyping with Simulink and Simscape

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Course Details

This two-day course describes techniques for the modeling, controls, and validation of electric motor drives using Simulink^®, Simscape Electrical™, Motor Control Blockset™, Embedded Coder, and C2000™ Microcontroller Blockset.

Topics include:

Modeling and parametrization of a motor drive.
Controls implementation for a three-phase brushless motor.
Performance characterization of a motor drive.
Configuration of motor controller peripherals.
Communications with the motor controller.
Deployment and testing of a motor control algorithm.

Day 1 of 2

Electric Machine Operating Principles

Objective: Introduce electromechanical energy conversion principles and their applications towards electric machines.

Overview of electric motors
Electric machine operating principles
Clarke and Park transform
Motor control development workflow

Three-Phase Brushless Motors

Objective: Model three-phase brushless motors using lumped parameter and high-fidelity models. Simulate the motor drive and examine the motor behavior under different operating conditions.

Three-phase brushless motor
Tabulated motor model data
Three-phase inverter
Pulse-width modulation implementation
Open-loop voltage control

Field-Oriented Control

Objective: Implement current control for a three-phase brushless motor using field-oriented control. Tune the controller and validate the controller performance.

Field-oriented control (FOC)
Current control implementation
Controller tuning

Variable-Speed Drives

Objective: Implement a variable-speed drive by considering the motor performance under different operating regions. Extend the operation of the motor to high speeds using field-weakening control.

Maximum-torque-per-ampere
Field weakening
Torque speed characteristics
Speed control

Day 2 of 2

Sensors and Peripherals

Objective: Configure and test the analog-to-digital converter (ADC), pulse-width modulation (PWM), and position sensor peripherals on hardware.

General purpose IO drivers
PWM drivers
Quadrature encoders
ADC drivers

Host-Target Communications

Objective: Set up the motor controller to run stand-alone while receiving commands and transmitting feedback information to a host model.

Two-model approach
Serial communication interface
Host model setup

Controller Execution

Objective: Synchronize motor controller task execution using an interrupt-based approach. Deploy the motor controller onto hardware using a deployment harness.

ADC and PWM interrupts
Deployment harness
Rate transitions

Parameter Estimation

Objective: Use parameter estimation techniques to experimentally determine motor parameters.

Parameter estimation
Plant validation

Level: Intermediate

Prerequisites:

MATLAB Fundamentals and Simulink Fundamentals. This course is intended for intermediate or advanced Simulink users.

Duration: 2 day

Languages: 中文