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Real-Time Platform for the Control Prototyping and Simulation of Power Electronics and Motor Drives

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Paper File : 2009_icmsao_RTsim_v2.pdf

Author(s)

Simon Abourida, Jean Bélanger,

Abstract

The paper presents state-of-the-art technologies and platform for real-time simulation and control of motor drives, power converters and power systems. Through its support for Model-Based Design method with Simulink®, its powerful hardware (multi-core processors and FPGAs), and its specialized model libraries and solvers, this realtime simulator (RT-LAB™) enables the engineer and researcher to efficiently implement advanced control strategies on embedded hardware, or to conduct extensive testing of complex power electronics and real-time transient simulation of large power systems.

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REAL-TIME PLATFORM FOR THE CONTROL PROTOTYPING AND SIMULATION OF POWER ELECTRONICS AND MOTOR DRIVES

Originally published
in the March 2009
issue of Planet-RT

Publication date : Jan 2009
Paper File : Paper-ICMSAO-2009_Opal-RT.pdf

Author(s)

Simon Abourida, Jean Bélanger,

Abstract

The paper presents state-of-the-art technologies and platform for real-time simulation and control of motor drives, power converters and power systems. Through its support for Model-Based Design method with Simulink®, its powerful hardware (multi-core processors and FPGAs), and its specialized model libraries and solvers, this realtime simulator (RT-LAB™) enables the engineer and researcher to efficiently implement advanced control strategies on embedded hardware, or to conduct extensive testing of complex power electronics and real-time transient simulation of large power systems.

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Closed-Loop Control of Virtual FPGA-Coded Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor Drives

Publication date : Sep 2008
Paper File : Paper_ISIE08.pdf

Author(s)

Vincent Lapointe, Simon Abourida, Jean Bélanger, Christian Dufour,

Abstract

Presented in this paper are the results of closed-loop control experiments using a virtual permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) drive implemented on a fieldprogrammable gate array (FPGA) card connected to an external controller. The FPGA-based PMSM motor drive is implemented on an eDRIVEsim simulator, based on the RT-LAB platform. The eDRIVEsim simulator implements 2 types of motor drive models, Park (d-q) and Finite Element Analysis (FEA), on an FPGA card of the simulator. The FPGA-based motor model is designed with Xilinx System Generator (XSG) blockset with no HDL hand coding. Both motor models compute motor currents using a phase-domain algorithm solver that can take into account the instantaneous variation of inductance and non-sinusoidal induced voltage. The FEA-type model uses inductance and Back-EMF profiles computed with JMAG-RT. The d-q model uses sinusoidal induced Back-EMF voltage and phase inductance values computed from Ld and Lq using the well-known Park transformation. A 3-phase IGBT inverter implemented in the FPGA chip drives the PMSM machine. The PWM controller is designed using Rapid Control Prototyping (RCP) methodology based on Simulink. It is implemented on an separate RT-LAB system using standard Opal-RT FPGA-based I/O cards for Analog Input capture and PWM generation. The paper presents results from the closed-loop control of the PMSM drive in both current control and speed control modes and discusses the advantages of using such a virtual test bench for motor drives.

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RT-LAB Real Time Simulation of Electric Drives and Systems

Publication date : Dec 2005
Paper File : npec2005_opalrt_paper.pdf

Author(s)

Simon Abourida, Jean Bélanger, Girish Nanjundaiah, Christian Dufour,

Abstract

This paper presents the RT-LAB Electrical Drive Simulator technology along with practical applications. The RT-LAB simulation software enables the parallel simulation of an electrical circuit on clusters of PC running QNX or RT-Linux operating systems at sample time below 10 µs. Using standard Simulink models including SimPowerSystems models, RT-LAB build computation and communication tasks necessary to effectively make parallel simulation of electrical systems with low cost off-the-shelf PC technology. To accommodate the high bandwidth of electrical systems, the RT-LAB Electrical Drive Simulator comes with special Simulink-based modeling tools, namely ARTEMIS and RT-EVENTS that permits real-time simulation of electrical systems at practical time step of 10 µs but with sub-µs equivalent precision through the use of interpolation techniques.

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RT-LAB Based Real-Time Simulation of a Direct Field-Oriented Controller for an Induction Motor

Publication date : Jul 2002
Paper File : 315m_ouhrouche.pdf

Author(s)

Simon Abourida, Nicolas Léchevin, Mohand Ouhrouche,

Abstract

In this paper, the authors present a real-time PC-based simulation of a direct field-oriented controller (DFOC) for an induction motor using RT-LAB software package. The use of a real-time simulator to achieve Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) simulation allows rapid prototyping of this kind of complex system in particular, and the development and testing of embedded systems in general. The implemented system presented in this paper consists of an induction motor with its static converter and speed, torque and flux controllers. These controllers are designed to take into account the variations of the rotor resistance.

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Real-Time Simulation of Switched Reluctance Motor Drives

Publication date : Sep 2003
Paper File : toptec_switched_reluctance.pdf

Author(s)

Simon Abourida, Mark Ehsani,

Abstract

This presentation includes an introduction on why real-time simulation of motor drive should be used. It then shows, the configuration of the SRM inverter, the basic equations of the drive, the inductance based model of SRM and the real-time simulation of the SRM drive.

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Real-Time Simulation of Permanent Magnet Motor Drive on FPGA Chip for High-Bandwidth Controller Tests and Validation

Publication date : Feb 2006
Paper File : 2006_isie_dufour_pmsm_fpga_abstract1.pdf

Author(s)

Simon Abourida, Jean Bélanger, Christian Dufour,

Abstract

This paper presents a real-time simulator of a permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) drive implemented on an FPGA card. Real-time simulation of PMSM drives enables rapid deployment and thorough testing of efficient control strategies for vehicular or industrial applications.

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Real-time Simulation of Onboard Generation and Distribution Power Systems

Publication date : Aug 2005
Paper File : 2005_electrimacs.pdf

Author(s)

Simon Abourida, Jean Bélanger, Christian Dufour,

Abstract

This paper presents the RT-LAB Electrical Drive Simulator technology along with practical applications. The RT-LAB simulation software enables the parallel simulation of an electrical circuit on clusters of PC running QNX or RT-Linux operating systems at sample time below 10 µs. Using standard Simulink models including SimPowerSystems models, RT-LAB build computation and communication tasks necessary to effectively make parallel simulation of electrical systems with low cost off-the-shelf PC technology.

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Real-time Simulation of Induction Motor IGBT Drive on a PC-Cluster

Publication date : Dec 2002
Paper File : ipst03_rtdrive4e.pdf

Author(s)

Simon Abourida, Jean Bélanger, Christian Dufour,

Abstract

This paper presents a real-time motor drive simulator capable to accurately simulate a double IGBT bridge inverter connected to an induction motor through an inter phase transformer. The simulator also includes a DC link model with regeneration capability and two choppers. The paper will detail the implementation of the model and simulation results and timing.

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Real-time Simulation of Hybrid Electric Vehicle Traction Drives

Publication date : Sep 2003
Paper File : Opal-RT_Toyota.pdf

Author(s)

Simon Abourida, Jean Bélanger, Christian Dufour,

Abstract

This paper presents a real-time electric vehicle traction drive simulator along with two applications. The first application is a double IGBT bridge inverter connected to an induction motor through an inter phase transformer. The second application is a fuel-cell-battery hybrid vehicle drive application with a 10 kHz converter.

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