FPGA-based real-time emulation of power electronic systems with detailed representation of device characteristics

Author

Myaing, Aung ; Dinavahi, Venkata

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

fYear

2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

11

Abstract

This paper presents a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) based real-time digital simulator for power electronic apparatus based on an realistic device-level behavioral model. A 3-level 12-pulse Voltage Source Converter (VSC) fed induction machine drive is implemented on the FPGA. The VSC model is computed at a fixed time-step of 12.5ns allowing an realistic representation of the IGBT nonlinear switching characteristics and power losses. The simulator also models a squirrel-cage induction machine, a direct field-oriented control system, and a pulse-width modulator to achieve the real-time simulation of the complete drive system. All the models have been implemented using VHDL. Real-time simulation results have been validated using measured device-level IGBT characteristics.

Keywords

PWM power convertors; asynchronous machines; field programmable gate arrays; hardware description languages; insulated gate bipolar transistors; logic design; power electronics; FPGA; IGBT nonlinear switching; VHDL; device-level behavioral model; field programmable gate array; field-oriented control system; insulated gate bipolar transistors; power electronic systems; pulse-width modulator; real-time digital simulator; squirrel-cage induction machine; time 12.5 ns; voltage source converter; Computational modeling; Insulated gate bipolar transistors; Integrated circuits; Mathematical model; Numerical models; Real time systems; Switches; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware-in-the-loop simulation; Induction motor drives; Pulse width modulated power converters; Real-time systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power and Energy Society General Meeting, 2011 IEEE

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

ISSN

1944-9925

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1000-1

Electronic_ISBN

1944-9925

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PES.2011.6039125

Filename

6039125