An End-to-End Modeling and Prototyping Platform for Power Electronics and Electric Drives

Pedagogical methodology of incorporating hands-on laboratory with academic coursework improves retention and understanding. Adopting this laboratory-based approach for electric drives and power electronics has been limited due to the prohibitive cost of facilities, software, and equipment. Furthermo...

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Published in:IEEE journal of emerging and selected topics in power electronics 2022-04, Vol.10 (2), p.1395-1408
Main Authors: Raju, Siddharth, Srivatchan, Lakshmi Narayanan, Mohan, Ned
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Codes
Control equipment
Electric drives
Electronics
Equipment costs
Hardware
Laboratories
Mathematical model
Matlab
model-based design
motor controls
Power electronics
Prototyping
real-time
Real-time systems
Software
vector control
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Summary:Pedagogical methodology of incorporating hands-on laboratory with academic coursework improves retention and understanding. Adopting this laboratory-based approach for electric drives and power electronics has been limited due to the prohibitive cost of facilities, software, and equipment. Furthermore, the multidomain skills necessary to implement motor controls and the safety concerns while working with power electronics have dissuaded many universities from offering these laboratories. This article presents an extremely low-cost electric drives laboratory using a newly developed model-based simulation software and real-time control platform. An undergraduate-level and a graduate-level electric drives laboratories developed and adopted by multiple universities are discussed in detail. Finally, this article presents a comparison of this laboratory to other alternatives.
ISSN:2168-6777
2168-6785
DOI:10.1109/JESTPE.2021.3110786