Advanced FPGA-Based Controllers for Power Electronic and Drive Applications (2017)

Welcome to Advanced FPGA-Based Controllers for Power Electronic and Drive Applications

 

Description: Digital controllers are now extremely powerful. With the current Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), designing a controller is no longer limited to the programming of a microprocessor but includes also the programming of the architecture of the processor itself along with its peripherals and its computing accelerators. As a consequence, the control designer should be now a system architect who also needs a deep understanding of the final system to be controlled. Along this line, this course aims to propose a rational use of current FPGA reconfigurable platforms for controlling power electronic and drive applications.

The following topics are covered in the course:

  • Introduction, presentation of the current trends in terms of digital control implementation for electrical systems.
  • Description of FPGA components (Internal architecture of FPGAs, recent System-on-Chip extension, presentation of the corresponding development tools)
  • Main design rules of an FPGA-based controller: Control algorithm refinement (design of a time continuous controller, internal delay issues, digital re-design, sampling issues, quantization issues). Architecture refinement (algorithm architecture matching, IP-modules reusability, Hardware-In-the-Loop (HIL) validation, system-on-chip extension)
  • Presentation of practical cases: Current control of a synchronous motor drive, sensorless control techniques (Kalman filtering, high frequency injection).
  • Hands-on the FPGA-based control of a three phase inverter connected to the grid (PI current controller, PR current controller, sliding mode current controller, predictive current controller)

Prerequisites: Matlab/Simulink knowledge is recommended for the exercises.

Organizer: Professor Josep M. Guerrero, joz@et.aau.dk, Aalborg University, and Associate Professor Juan C. Vasquez, juq@et.aau.dk, Aalborg University

Lecturers: Professor Eric Monmasson, University of Cergy-Pontoise, France, and Assistant Professor Lahoucine Idkajine, University of Cergy-Pontoise

ECTS: 2

Price: 6000 DKK for PhD students outside of Denmark and 1500 DKK for PhD students in Denmark, who are not from AAU. 8000 DKK for the Industry.

Time: 19. - 20. April 2017

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Number of seats: 20

Deadline: 29. March 2017

 

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