uCube: control platform for power electronics

This paper presents a versatile tool for development, control and testing of power electronics converters. In the last decade, many different expensive off-the-shelf tools for rapid prototyping and testing have been developed and commercialised by few market players. Recently, the increasing diffusi...

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Main Authors: Galassini, Alessandro, Lo Calzo, Giovanni, Formentini, Andrea, Gerada, C., Zanchetta, Pericle, Costabeber, Alessando
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Published: 2017
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/42683/
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author Galassini, Alessandro
Lo Calzo, Giovanni
Formentini, Andrea
Gerada, C.
Zanchetta, Pericle
Costabeber, Alessando
author_facet Galassini, Alessandro
Lo Calzo, Giovanni
Formentini, Andrea
Gerada, C.
Zanchetta, Pericle
Costabeber, Alessando
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description This paper presents a versatile tool for development, control and testing of power electronics converters. In the last decade, many different expensive off-the-shelf tools for rapid prototyping and testing have been developed and commercialised by few market players. Recently, the increasing diffusion of low cost, Do It Yourself targeted development tools gained market shares previously controlled by conventional players. This trend has been driven by the fact that, despite their lower performances, many of these low cost systems are powerful enough to develop simple power electronics systems for learning and teaching purposes. This paper describes a control platform developed within the University of Nottingham, targeting at the market and application segment in between the expensive off-the-shelf control boards and the low cost emerging systems. The platform is based on the Microzed evaluation board, equipped with the Xilinx Zynq System-on-Chip. Its flexibility, features and performances will be addressed and examples of how they are being experimentally validated on different rigs will be provided.
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spelling nottingham-426832020-05-04T18:49:56Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/42683/ uCube: control platform for power electronics Galassini, Alessandro Lo Calzo, Giovanni Formentini, Andrea Gerada, C. Zanchetta, Pericle Costabeber, Alessando This paper presents a versatile tool for development, control and testing of power electronics converters. In the last decade, many different expensive off-the-shelf tools for rapid prototyping and testing have been developed and commercialised by few market players. Recently, the increasing diffusion of low cost, Do It Yourself targeted development tools gained market shares previously controlled by conventional players. This trend has been driven by the fact that, despite their lower performances, many of these low cost systems are powerful enough to develop simple power electronics systems for learning and teaching purposes. This paper describes a control platform developed within the University of Nottingham, targeting at the market and application segment in between the expensive off-the-shelf control boards and the low cost emerging systems. The platform is based on the Microzed evaluation board, equipped with the Xilinx Zynq System-on-Chip. Its flexibility, features and performances will be addressed and examples of how they are being experimentally validated on different rigs will be provided. 2017-06-15 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed Galassini, Alessandro, Lo Calzo, Giovanni, Formentini, Andrea, Gerada, C., Zanchetta, Pericle and Costabeber, Alessando (2017) uCube: control platform for power electronics. In: IEEE WEMDCD'2017: IEEE Workshop on Electrical Machines Design, Control and Diagnosis, 20-21 April 2017, University of Nottingham, UK. Power Electronics Control board Control plat¬form Power converters Zynq Microzed uCube Control http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/7947749/ doi:10.1109/WEMDCD.2017.7947749 doi:10.1109/WEMDCD.2017.7947749
spellingShingle Power Electronics
Control board
Control plat¬form
Power converters
Zynq
Microzed
uCube
Control
Galassini, Alessandro
Lo Calzo, Giovanni
Formentini, Andrea
Gerada, C.
Zanchetta, Pericle
Costabeber, Alessando
uCube: control platform for power electronics
title uCube: control platform for power electronics
title_full uCube: control platform for power electronics
title_fullStr uCube: control platform for power electronics
title_full_unstemmed uCube: control platform for power electronics
title_short uCube: control platform for power electronics
title_sort ucube: control platform for power electronics
topic Power Electronics
Control board
Control plat¬form
Power converters
Zynq
Microzed
uCube
Control
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/42683/
https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/42683/
https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/42683/