Model construction and verification of a BLDC motor using MATLAB/SIMULINK and FPGA control

• Published in: 2011 6th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications pp. 1797 - 1802
• Main Authors: Ming-Fa Tsai, Tran Phu Quy, Bo-Feng Wu, Chung-Shi Tseng
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.06.2011
• Subjects: BLDC motor; Brushless DC motors; FPGA control; Induction motors; Integrated circuit modeling; Mathematical model; MATLAB; model construction
• ISBN: 9781424487547; 1424487544
• ISSN: 2156-2318
• DOI: 10.1109/ICIEA.2011.5975884

This paper presents the model construction of a brushless DC motor via MATLAB/SIMULINK and FPGA control, so that one can evaluate the performance of the BLDC motor control with various control schemes using MATLAB/SIMULINK. The constructed model consists of a BLDC motor dynamics block, a Hall-sensor signals generation block, a back-emf block, and a PWM-generation logic block. In order to evaluate the model, various cases of simulation studies are carried out. The control and PWM-generation logic block then can be transferred to digital hardware circuit in VHDL hardware description language for co-simulation verification in the MATLAB/SIMULINK and ModelSim environment. Experiment results by using FPGA control are also obtained to verify the correctness of the constructed BLDC model.