Computer-Aided Testing of Electrical Machines: Software Development

Computer-aided test stations have been developed for research, experimentation, and testing of electric motors and generators. Data acquisition and control of the machines and drives are provided through a computer and its interfaces. Machines are connected to the computer through transducers for data acquisition, and power electronic drives for machine control. General software was written to enable the monitoring of all transducers continuously on the CRT screen while giving the user manual control of the machines and drives. Specialized software was written for automatic control of the induction, dc, and synchronous machines for specific experiments on each type of machine.