DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A MICROCONTROLLER BASED THREE-PHASE INDUCTION MOTOR ADJUSTABLE SPEED

CONTROL SYSTEM

Table of content
1. INTRODUCTION
1.1 Overview
1.2 Aim of project
1.3 Outline of project

2 THEORY AND LITERATURE REVIEW

2.1 AC induction motor
2.1.1 Speed-torque characteristic
2.1.2 Voltage-frequency control
2.2 Three phase bridge rectifiers
2.2.1 Three phase bridge uncontrolled rectifier
2.2.2 Three phase bridge controlled rectifier
2.2.3 Three phase bridge rectifier with R-L load
2.3 Inverters
2.3.1 Pulse width modulation in inverters
2.3.1.1 Carrier based sinusoidal PWM (SPWM)
2.3.1.2 Space vector pwm (SVPWM)
2.3.1.3 Comparison between SPWM and SVPWM
2.4 Power switching semiconductors
2.4.1 IGBT , MOSFET, GTO
2.4.2 Gate drives
2.5 Low pass filters
2.6 Microcontroller
2.6.1 PIC18F452
2.6.2 PIC18F452 peripherals
2.7 Conclusion
3 METHODOLOGY
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Overall system design
3.2.1 System requirements
3.2.2 System concept
3.2.3 System outline
3.3 Hardware design
3.3.1 Implementation of 3 phase rectifier
3.3.1.1 Finding diode rating
3.3.1.2 Filter capacitance
3.3.2 Implementation of three phase inverter
3.3.2.1 Choice of power switch
3.3.2.2 Gate drive design
3.3.2.3 PIC microcontroller design
3.3.2.4 Power supply design
3.3.3 Heat sink
3.3.3.1 Power loss calculations
3.3.3.2 Determining heat sink rating
3.4 Software development
3.4.1 Software specifications and criteria
3.4.2 Software design
3.4.2.1 Data flow
3.4.2.2 Software implementation
3.4.2.2.1 ADC interrupt
3.4.2.2.2 Look up table
3.4.2.2.3 PWM generation
3.4.2.3 Program description
3.5 Conclusion

4 RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

4.1 Introduction
4.2 Simulation results
 4.2.1 PSpice simulation of three phase rectifier
4.2.2 Simulation of MPlab IDE program using PIC simulator
4.2.3 Matlab simulation of carrier based sinusoidal PWM
4.3 Experimental results
4.3.1 Control system performance
4.3.2 Output voltage of three phase rectifier
4.3.3 Inverter performance
4.3.4 Motor speed control results
4.4 Comparison between experimental and simulation results

5 CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION

5.1 Costing and commercialization
5.2 Conclusion
5.3 Recommendation for future work