Online Education of Microcontroller Control of Electric Drives with FPGA Based HIL

• Published in: 2024 IEEE 21st International Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference (PEMC) pp. 1 - 6
• Main Authors: Kosan, Tomas, Talla, Jakub, Janous, Stepan
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 30-09-2024
• Subjects: converter model; COVID-19; Education; Field programmable gate arrays; FPGA HIL; induction motor model; Laboratories; Microcontrollers; motor control; Power measurement; Programming profession; real-time modeling; Real-time systems; Timing; Tuning
• ISSN: 2473-0165
• DOI: 10.1109/PEMC61721.2024.10726383

The pandemic situation related to Covid-19 exposed the need for alternative directions in education and its adaptation to online environment. This is especially the case in practically oriented courses, such as microprocessor control of electric drives. Those are typically strongly linked with the laboratory environment and requires special equipment such as electric motors, power converters, power sources, measurement equipment, embedded microcontrollers etc. The paper presents the tools for distant education of laboratory classes of Microprocessor control of electric drives course by using remote access to personal computers located in a laboratory. The core of the presented tool is a real time model of electric drive implemented in FPGA as a real-time Hardware In the Loop (HIL) simulator. The experimental comparison to the real drive is provided to verify the proposed tool.