Control in Power Electronics

Lecturer:

Tutor:

Supervisor:

Department of Electric Drives and Traction

Synopsis:

The course contains basic knowledge essential to design of control blocks for power electronic equipments, semiconductor converters and electric drives with emphasis on microprocessor engineering. Signal types and circuits for their adjustment and processing, applicable technical means based on analog, digital and microprocessor technique, sensors and actuators and system implementation rules are presented.

Requirements:

Defined laboratory attendance, exercise solution

Syllabus of lectures:

1. Basic concepts, structure of drive control circuits

2. Signals and its processing in the electric drive technique

3. Basic analog controller circuitry, application, parameter tuning

4. Interface circuits, galvanic isolation, pulse generation

5. Boolean functions and circuitry, logic kits, design methods

6. Sensors and actuators in the electric drive technique

7. Basic terminology, drive controller structure, microprocessor technique

8. Software development of microcomputer controllers

9. MPLAB IDE development environment, simulator and emulator, compiler C18

10.RISC microcontroller pic18Fxxxx, system structure

11.Interrupt system, special unit for pulse signal measurement and generation

12.Basic control algorithm block examples I

13.Basic control algorithm block examples II

14.Cabling of automatic control systems, interference and protection

Syllabus of tutorials:

1. Laboratory safety rules, RC2000 analog technique kits

2. Getting started with RC2000 and digital oscilloscope Tektronix

3. Computer elaboration of results, electric drive sensors

4. Basic circuitry using operating amplifiers

5. Analog technique - individual exercise

6. Exercise processing

7. Digital technique - development environment MPLAB IDE, compiler C18

8. MPLAB IDE simulator and emulator ICD2

9. Microcontroller pic18F452, demo-board PICDEM 2 Plus

10.pic18F452 - interrupt system, LED control, analog signal measurement

11.pic18F452 - pulse signal generation hardware

12.Digital technique - individual exercise

13.Exercise processing

14.Exercise check, credit

Study Objective:

Study materials:

1. Leonhard, W.: Control of Electrical Drives Springer Verlag, 2001

2. Next literature will be specified by the lecturer

Note:

Further information:

No time-table has been prepared for this course

The course is a part of the following study plans:

• Heavy-current Engineering- structured studies (compulsory elective course)
• Softwarové inženýrství (elective specialized course)
• Web a multimedia (elective specialized course)
• Manažerská informatika (elective specialized course)
• Inteligentní systémy (elective specialized course)