Title :
An embedded diagnostic system for wheelchairs brushless drives monitoring
Author :
Lombardi, P. ; Giaconia, C.G. ; Di Dio, V.
Author_Institution :
Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica, Elettronica e delle Telecomunicazioni, Universita degli Studi di Palermo
Abstract :
The implementation of a microcontroller based monitoring system for the diagnosis of a brushless synchronous motor drives is presented. It finds its primarily interest on motorized wheelchair for disabled people. The embedded system mainly controls all the principal parameters of the electrical drives together with the power supply system. Pre-failure and failure conditions are routinely logged and, depending on the malfunction severity, alarm messages are created and sent to a remote base station by using the GSM wireless network
Keywords :
brushless machines; cellular radio; condition monitoring; electric vehicles; failure analysis; handicapped aids; microcontrollers; power supplies to apparatus; synchronous motor drives; GSM wireless network; alarm messages; brushless synchronous motor drives; disabled people; embedded diagnostic system; microcontroller based monitoring system; power supply system; wheelchairs brushless drives monitoring; Base stations; Condition monitoring; Control systems; Embedded system; GSM; Microcontrollers; Power supplies; Synchronous motors; Wheelchairs; Wireless networks;
Conference_Titel :
Power Electronics, Electrical Drives, Automation and Motion, 2006. SPEEDAM 2006. International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Taormina
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0193-3
DOI :
10.1109/SPEEDAM.2006.1649873
