HIL CO-SIMULATION OF MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL UTILIZING FPGA FOR ASYNCHRONOUS MOTOR FED BY THREE LEVEL INVERTER

Abstract

The paper presents a method to implement Model Predictive Control (MPC) for asynchronous motor fed by 3- level converter H-Bridges, based on FPGA platform and HIL co-simulation. A combination of FCS-MPC (Finite control set MPC) and multi-level converters which brings a variety of advantages has become a tendency of power electronics research. Besides, FPGA is proposed as an effective solution to solve the problems: the heavy computational volume in a very short time of MPC and the large number of semiconductor valves that needs to be controlled of the multi-level converters. Asynchronous motor and the converter are emulated on HIL in real-time with high reliability according to Typhoon standards. Therefore, providing a new approach, easy to test and experiment for power electronics systems. The result of implementing MPC method in HIL- FPGA environment have proved the advantages of this method.