A real-time control platform for rapid prototyping of induction motor vector control

Abstract

This paper presents a real-time control platform developed for rapid prototyping of an induction motor (IM) vector control. Firstly, the control system is designed with the Simulink in the form of user-friendly block-diagrams. Next, c-codes are automatically generated from the block-diagrams with the real-time workshop. And lastly, an executable code, produced from the c-codes through a DSP c-compiler, is downloaded into a target DSP board. With this automatic programming scheme rapid prototyping is realized with the least low-level handwork programming. Presented control platform has been evaluated through the rapid prototyping of a voltage source inverter-fed IM driver and some experiments have been carried out to show its effectiveness.