Hardware-in-the-Loop approach to the development and validation of precision induction motor servo drive using xPC Target
The development of a Hardware-in-the-Loop (HiL) simulation platform for precision induction motor (IM) servo drive development, evaluation and testing of various control architectures is described in this paper. The platform uses industrial graded hardware components, i.e. Mitsubishi IGBT inverter, 3-phase induction motor and incremental optical encoder as well as various measurement sensors. Its main computational core is implemented using an xPC Target platform which enables rapid validation, prototyping and deployment of various control algorithms via Matlab & Simulink.