A generic converter for experimentation based power electronics learning

Abstract

This paper presents a low cost, modular, configurable and fully protected education tool based on a generic electronic converter to be used by students, providing them with skills regarding power electronics and converters, and enabling them to learn from experience the most important issues concerning DC and AC electric drives.

A hardware tool for explained power electronics control of induction motors

“…Typically, the handouts for the experiments provide an equipment list and a list of topics which can be explored with the prototype hardware. The students can use a converter that can implement nearly any dc-dc or dc-ac converter, providing students with a means to quickly begin to explore various experiments [8]. The key improvement is a new "grey box" induction motor control using the MC3PHAC motor controller from Motorola.…”

“…The main modules of the setup are: the controller board based on the MC3PHAC motor controller, the master board, a set of gate driver boards, the power converter and the induction motor loaded by a powder break. The power converter used in this work was built using some modules of the generic converter described with detail in [8] which was also designed as a "plug and play" set of pieces. …”