Theory and implementation of a simple digital control strategy for brushless DC generators

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 3345-3356

  Milivojevic, Nikola ^a   Krishnamurthy, Mahesh ^b   Emadi, Ali ^c   Stamenkovic, Igor ^a  

^a MagDrive LLC   (United States)

^b Illinois Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

BLDC generator; digital control; FPGA; low cost control

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS; BLDC GENERATOR; BRUSHLESS DC GENERATORS; CONTROL STRATEGIES; CONTROL TECHNIQUES; DIGITAL CONTROL; FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES; HIGH POWER DENSITY; INDUSTRIAL GENERATORS; MEMORY CAPACITY; OPERATING CONDITION; OPERATING RANGES; POSITION SENSORS; RENEWABLE ENERGY SYSTEMS; WIDE SPEED RANGE;

DC GENERATORS; DC POWER TRANSMISSION; DIGITAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; VOLTAGE REGULATORS;

ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

EID: 82155192334     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2011.2135378     Document Type: Article

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