Development of an Electrical Machines and Drives Laboratory

在自动化制造和机器人等工业应用中，对运动控制和高效率驱动的要求急剧增加。电力电子器件、电机中的磁性材料以及使用微处理器和VLSI电路实现的控制系统理论的最新进展，使这种驱动的发展成为可能。最近建立的电机和驱动器实验室的改进计划将把重点从孤立的电机的特性转移到由硬件和软件组成的驱动器的概念上。该项目所需的新设备包括新型电机、现代电力电子驱动器(整流器和逆变器)、用于测量和控制的精密传感器以及用于控制实验和收集和分析数据的计算机。有了这种设备，在实验室里的实验将允许学生研究驱动特性，并使用能量转换、数字系统或控制理论等不同领域的知识来分析和设计运动控制系统。这些设备也将用于电力电子学课程的实验室部分。

The requirements for motion control and for high efficiency drives have increased dramatically in industrial applications such as automated manufacturing and robotics. The recent advances in power electronic devices, magnetic materials in electric motors, and in control systems theory as implemented with the use of microprocessors and VLSI circuits, have allowed the development of such drives. An improvement plan for the recently established laboratory in electrical machines and drives will shift the emphasis from the characteristics of isolated electrical machines to the concept of a drive consisting of a collection of hardware and software. The new equipment required for this project includes new types of electrical machines, modern power electronic drives (rectifiers and inverters), accurate sensors for measurement and control, and computers to control the experiments and collect and analyze data. With this equipment, the experiments in the laboratory will allow the student to study the drive characteristics and use knowledge from such diverse areas as energy conversion, digital systems, or control theory to analyze and design a motion control system. These equipment will be also used for the laboratory section of the power electronics course.