Development of FPGA based control architecture for PMSM drives

Publication Type:
Thesis
Issue Date:
2015
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The rapid advancement of the very large scale integration (VLSI) technology and electronic design automation techniques in recent years has made a significant impact on the development of complex and compact high performance control architecture for industrial motion systems. Specific hardware with the field programmable gate array (FPGA) technology is now considered as a promising solution in order to make use of the reliability and versatility of controllers. Indeed, FPGAs have been successfully used in many control applications such as power converter control and electrical machines control. This is because such an FPGA-based implementation can offer an effective reprogrammable capability and overcome disadvantages of microprocessor-based or digital signal processor-based embedded systems. This thesis aims to provide a proof-of-concept for the control-system-on-chip and a prototype for a fully-implemented FPGA control architecture for permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) drives. In this thesis, a special focus is given on analytical effects, design procedure, and control performance enhancement for PMSM drives under sensor/sensorless vector control using a number of control techniques. The control schemes include FPGA-based intelligent control and robust cascade control for single axis and multiple axis tracking with PMSMs. An important contribution of this thesis rests with a convincing demonstration of high performance estimation schemes, using sliding mode observers and extended Kalman filters, in terms of accuracy and robustness against noisy and/or perturbed currents for sensorless PMSM control based on the FPGA technology. In addition, a sequential finite state machine is developed in this work to result in less logic gate resources, leading to a faster processing time. Significance of this thesis contribution includes in providing a feasible and effective solution for the implementation of complex control strategies to fully exploit the FPGA advantages in power electronics and drive applications.
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