Date Available
12-7-2011
Year of Publication
2004
Document Type
Thesis
College
Engineering
Department
Electrical Engineering
First Advisor
Arthur V. Radun
Abstract
Rotor Position information is essential in the operation of the Switched Reluctance Motor (SRM) for properly controlling its phase currents. This thesis uses Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) technology to implement a method to estimate the SRMs rotor position using the inverse inductance value of the SRMs phases. The estimated rotor position is given as input to the Commutator circuit, also implemented in the FPGA, to determine when torque-producing currents should be input in the SRM phase windings. The Estimator and Commutator design is coded using Verilog HDL and is simulated using Xilinx tools. This circuit is implemented on a Xilinx Virtex XCV800 FPGA system. The experimentally generated output is validated by comparing it with simulation results from a Simulink model of the Estimator. The performance of the FPGA based SRM rotor position estimator in terms of calculation time is compared to a digital signal processor (DSP) implementation of the same position estimator algorithm. It is found that the FPGA rotor position Estimator with a 5MHz clock can update its rotor position estimate every 7s compared to an update time of 50s for a TMS320C6701-150 DSP implementation using a commercial DSP board. This is a greater than 7 to one reduction in the update time.
Recommended Citation
Pampana, Srilaxmi, "FPGA BASED IMPLEMENTATION OF A POSITION ESTIMATOR FOR CONTROLLING A SWITCHED RELUCTANCE MOTOR" (2004). University of Kentucky Master's Theses. 254.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/gradschool_theses/254
