A dual high-speed PMSM motor drive emulator with Finite Element Analysis on FPGA chip with full fault testing capability

This paper presents a FPGA-based virtual motor drive system featuring two Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machine (PMSM) drives made with two-level IGBT/GTO inverters model with full fault capability. The inverters are implemented on the FPGA with a nodal solver, using floating point arithmetic, and support individual component faults, like a single IGBT open fault, as well as other non-standard modes, like cases with no IGBT gate signals and natural rectification. The motor model can be either linear d-q models or Finite Element Analysis models from JMAG-RT. The virtual motor drives are implemented on a Virtex-6 FPGA card and have a total latency near 1μs from the IGBT gate signal capture at Digital Inputs to motor currents at Analog Outputs and are therefore well adapted for HIL tests with high-speed machine with either PWM (up to 100 kHz) or hysteretic current control. Finally, the paper presents experimental accuracy validation made by a TIER-1 supplier for hybrid electric vehicle in Japan.