Undergraduate student experience in development of ZVS power converter for voltage control with low cost microcontroller
This paper presents an integration of a low cost microcontroller with a power converter for controlling the output voltage. Here, it will benefit the UTHM final year student in order to apply what have been taught during Power Electronics subject in Year 3. The power converter that has been develope...
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| Format: | Conference or Workshop Item |
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2016
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| Online Access: | http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7885289/ http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7885289/ |
| Summary: | This paper presents an integration of a low cost
microcontroller with a power converter for controlling the
output voltage. Here, it will benefit the UTHM final year student
in order to apply what have been taught during Power
Electronics subject in Year 3. The power converter that has
been developed is the zero voltage switching (ZVS) with inverter
voltage control mechanism. As for the microcontroller
application, the Raspberry Pi has been used. A test on open
loop and closed loop conditions have been applied using
Proportional Integral (PI) control for controlling the Pulse
Width Modulation (PWM) signal pattern for inverter output in
hardware experiment test. The PI controller is developed and
simulated using the MATLAB/Simulink software and then
downloaded to the Arduino and Raspberry Pi microcontroller
boards for testing purposes. At the end of the project, the
students are able to understand more especially on integrating
the control mechanism to the microcontroller device using a
power converter in order to achieve the control target output. |
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