A brushless DC motor control software C library based on ATmega64M1 applied to teaching

Author

Fabelo, Himar A. ; Cabrera, Julian ; Vega, A. ; Deniz, Victor

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng. & Automatics (DIEA), Univ. of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

fYear

2014

fDate

11-13 June 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

This paper describes the architecture of a C library developed for the control of a brushless direct current motor. The library has been made using a modular programming methodology. The control system is based on ATmega64M1 microcontroller integrated into a controller for 3-phase brushless direct current motors. The controller has been especially designed and manufactured for this project. This library has been mainly created to be used as an educational resource in teaching of practical sessions of microcontrollers programming and motor control systems. With it, students can learn the structure and the operation of the most used control systems currently that are replacing to the traditional direct current motors with brushes.

Keywords

brushless DC motors; computer aided instruction; control engineering computing; control engineering education; control system synthesis; electronic engineering computing; electronic engineering education; microcontrollers; software libraries; 3-phase brushless direct current motors; ATmega64M1 microcontroller; brushless DC motor control software C library; educational resource; microcontrollers programming; modular programming methodology; motor control systems; teaching; Brushless DC motors; Libraries; Programming; Pulse width modulation; Sensors; Software; Switches; BLDC motor control C library; Power Stage Controller (PSC); analog to digital converter (ADC); brushless direct current motor (BLDCM); microcontroller ATmega64M1;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Tecnologias Aplicadas a la Ensenanza de la Electronica (Technologies Applied to Electronics Teaching) (TAEE), 2014 XI

Conference_Location

Bilbao

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TAEE.2014.6900165

Filename

6900165