Implementation of a configurable controller for an AC drive control: a case study

There are several different approaches to defining reconfigurable systems. Reconfigurable computing is also often called Custom or Adaptive. The significant potential for the acceleration of computing in general-purpose applications has been demonstrated (S. Hauck, 1998; J. Villasnor and W.H. Mangionesmith, 1997). Reconfigurable systems are those computing platforms whose architecture is modified by the software to suit the application at hand. J.M. Maciejowski (1997) gave another definition for reconfigurable systems. According to him, the reconfigurable (control) systems are important when a major failure occurs. The paper combines both approaches of reconfiguration in trying to give a solution implementing a reconfigurable embedded controller for the vector control of an AC drive.