Rapid Control Prototyping of Synchronous Reluctance Motor Drives by Matlab/Simulink

This paper concerns the rapid control prototyping of electrical drives. Off-line and real-time identical target simulations are presented, based on a Texas Instruments Delfino F28379S micro-controller. A synchronous reluctance motor drive is considered, accounting for the electromagnetic nonlinearities of the machine. In offline prototyping, the controlled hardware (motor, converter, and transducers) is modeled in Simulink, whereas in real-time prototyping, it is simulated directly on the micro-controller hardware by proper models. Then, both the approaches share the same control algorithm but run on different platforms, thus providing different prototyping features. Exemplary experiments complete the study. In particular, experimental validation of real-time simulation of the SynRel is not reported in the literature to date.