Industrial Automation and Machinery

Industry Segments

• Motors, Drives, and Power Electronics
• Industrial Robotics and Manufacturing Equipment
• Process Automation Systems and Industrial Controls
• Power Generation and Distribution Equipment

Motors, Drives, and Power Electronics

Electric motors and power electronics play key roles in many industrial automation and machinery applications—from complex power converters to advanced motor drive systems.

To improve performance and reduce costs, power electronics and motion control engineers are replacing traditional analog control systems with embedded digital designs. They use MATLAB® and Simulink® to:

• Model the complex dynamics of DC and AC motors
• Develop speed and torque control algorithms for motor servo and inverter drives
• Simulate and analyze the effects of high-frequency PWM switching on motion control applications
• Automatically generate and deploy C code to microcontrollers or DSPs
• Target algorithms to FPGAs

Motor and drive developers provide compiled versions of their Simulink component models to customers. These models help increase the accuracy of complex machinery and reduce development time by enabling developers to detect errors before committing the design to hardware.

For their AC 800PEC controller, ABB used the MATLAB product and Simulink software to design the control algorithms for filtering, current control, grid synchronization, and grid power monitoring, as well as to calculate power, idle power, and other physical variables.

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Featured Customers

• ABB automatically generates code for the AC 800PEC power converter controller.
• Protronic optimizes switched reluctance machine drives for weaving machines.
• Electrodynamics Associates develops a high-performance generator controller.

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