Optical Reliability Improvements for Low Cost Brushless DC Motor Controllers on FPGA

Yannick Verbelen, Pieter Taelman, Alexander Bulezyuk, Pieter Leemans, An Braeken, Abdellah Touhafi

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Abstract

To take full advantage of the high reliability of brushless DC motors (BLDCMs), an electronic control unit with equally high reliability is mandatory. In this paper, a solution is proposed for cost and reliability drawbacks associated with integrated BLDCM controllers by using reconfigurable technology to implement control logic. An embedded DSP design for FPGAs is presented that is able to drive BLDCMs using a minimum of external components and implementing optic coupling between logic and power electronics. Secondly, the reliability of the proposed implementation is compared to the performance of commercial BLDCM controllers.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2013 IV International Conference on Power Engineering, Energy and Electrical Drives (POWERENG)
PublisherIEEE
Pages490-495
Number of pages6
ISBN (Print)978-1-4673-6392-1
Publication statusPublished - 25 Oct 2013
EventFourth International Conference on Power Engineering, Energy and Electrical Drives (POWERENG) - Istanbul, Turkey
Duration: 13 May 201317 May 2013

Publication series

NameInternational Conference on Power Engineering, Energy and Electrical Drives
PublisherIEEE
ISSN (Print)2155-5516
ISSN (Electronic)2155-5532

Conference

ConferenceFourth International Conference on Power Engineering, Energy and Electrical Drives (POWERENG)
Country/TerritoryTurkey
CityIstanbul
Period13/05/1317/05/13

Keywords

  • Brushless DC motors
  • Coils
  • Field programmable gate arrays
  • MOSFET
  • Reliability
  • Sensors

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