Andrew E. Barnett

Prototype Drive System and Test Stand for Permanent Magnet Brushless DC Motors

MS Thesis
Date: September 30, 1997

Abstract:

The design and implementation of a motor drive system capable of developing and analyzing control algorithms for Permanent Magnet Synchronous motors (PMSM's) is presented in this thesis. The drive system will enable control algorithm development using the MATLAB-based graphical analysis package Simulink. Direct implementation of the algorithm will be possible using a combination of software and hardware. The heart of the thesis revolves around the ability to directly implement Simulink models in hardware and evaluate their real world performance. This is accomplished by a combination of two digital signal processor (DSP) based systems. the first DSP allows the conversion and implementation of control algorithms from Simulink to equivalent ANSI-standard C code, allowing download and interface from a personal computer (PC) to external hardware. The second system performs routine drive functions such as forward and reverse Park tansformations, analog data acquisition, and pulse width modulation implementation.

Committee:

Prof. Alex Stankovic (advisor)
Gilead Tadmor (advisor)