Development of Teaching Aid for Induction Motor Drive Control System

The paper constructed a flexible, low-cost, compact and safe induction motor simulator for microprocessors, DSP lectures and researches, targeting motor-drive control. The system is composed of two parts: (1) the control theory realization design based on a TI DSP chip, TMS320F28335 (2) the Xilinx Spartan-3E FPGA development board, used to simulate the induction motor drive system. It is capable of simulating components, e.g. controller, inverter, induction motor, sensor and load. This experiment simulation system creates responses that are identical to physical motor responses. Thus, the induction motor simulator can replace the expensive motor drive experiment equipment and achieve the theoretical verification and measurements.