Educational framework for a motor drive control systems: Design and performance assessment

Electric transport has been gaining more interest and importance in the last years. Moreover, the variety of transport systems driven by an electric motor has also been increased. Therefore, it is very important to provide engineering students with solid and comprehensible knowledge, as well as handly tools, for modeling an electric traction system. So far, this has been a difficult task for undergraduate students due to a variety of subjects involved, such as electric machines, power converters, control systems, and load estimations. This work is intended to provide a detailed and comprehensible description of the analysis, modeling, and implementation of a powertrain of a light utility vehicle using power electronics simulation (PSIM) commercial software in order that the student acquires the required knowledge for analyzing multiple configurations in the powertrain.

Section: Modeling Of a Light Electric Vehicle Powertrainmentioning

confidence: 99%

Light electric vehicle powertrain: Modeling, simulation, and experimentation for engineering students using PSIM

Vidal‐Bravo

Cruz-Soto

Paternina

et al. 2020

“…In Ref. the problem of motor drive control was approached using a HIL platform to develop an emulation‐based virtual laboratory. A very popular approach is to use Lego Mindstorms NXT platforms, such as those presented in .…”

Section: Educational Platforms In Control Engineeringmentioning

confidence: 99%

A low‐cost, free‐software platform with hard real‐time performance for control engineering education

González-Vargas

Serna-Ramirez

Fory-Aguirre

et al. 2018

In this paper, we present a novel portable servomechanism control platform for educational purposes. The platform main features are: low cost, reliable and robust hardware, high‐speed USB interface, free open source software (FOSS), graphical interface modeling (via Scilab/XCos) and hard real‐time performance based on the Real‐Time Application Interface for Linux (RTAI). The platform is easy to interface with any computer and can be carried home by students, opening many new possibilities for practical assignments in control courses. We include application examples and student feedback regarding their experience during various workshops in which the system was demonstrated.

“…HIL simulation is an emerging technology in the practical learning of power electronics [8]. In Porobic et al [18], Typhoon HIL simulators are used in practical learning for induction motor control. A solar PV test bench based on OPAL‐RT OP4500 is deployed at the University of New South Wales [13], and the students use it as an intermediate step between design and deployment.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Soomro et al [21] reported the HIL application in power electronics courses in Pakistan. In Porobic et al [18], HIL simulation is employed in the practical learning of AC motor control.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Mobile semi‐physical experiment platform using ultra‐compact real‐time simulator Pocket Bench for power electronics courses

Shen

Bian²

2022

The potential electrical hazard, the unreal experience, and the time-space inflexibility of the existing practical learning equipment are the barriers to the development of power electronics courses. To address these, this article introduces a mobile semi-physical experiment platform using Pocket Bench.The Pocket Bench is an ultra-compact Hardware-In-the-Loop real-time simulator, which can emulate the power electronic circuit with a 1.25 μs time step, and provide real-time response signals to the physical controller. As the dangerous electrical power flow in the power electronic circuit is emulated in real-time, the electrical hazards are eliminated. In practical learning, the students can implement the semi-physical experiment system quickly by connecting the physical controller to the simulator. With the physical