Workshop Outline

• Overview of motor technologies and their evolution
• Motion system elements: motors, power drivers, feedback devices, transmission
• Review of analog and digital control schemes applied to motor control
• Typical motion system structures (open loop, position loop, speed loop)

Tools for motion system and electrical drives design

• Global methodology for design and implementation of motion systems
• The S.O.A.P. (System Optimisation Assistance Program) development platform
• Modelisation of a complete motion system and control
• Dynamic simulation and optimisation
• Real time implementation
• Experimentation and capture of real system behavior

DSP motor control

Typical control schemes for:

• DC motor driver/Brushless DC drives
• Step motor drives
• AC induction motors
• AC synchronous (AC servo)
• Motion language
• Interfaces (communication/networking)

DSP real time implementation

• Definition of processor requirements
• Interface specifications
• Software modules
• Real time implementation

• PID, PID with feed-forward
• State space, state space with feed-forward
• AC motor: V/f control, skip control, field oriented control
• Sensorless control schemes (Kalmann filters, ...)

Practical experimentation and typical applications

• DC servo motors
• Step motors
• Brushless motors
• AC induction motors
• AC synchronous motors

Duration:
2 days workshop with practical exercises dedicated to DC, step and brushless motor control the first day and AC synchronous and AC induction the second day.