Design Guidelines of Rapid Control Prototyping Systems for Power Electronics and Electrical Drives

This paper presents four rapid control prototyping systems intended for control of power electronics and electrical drives. Three different, but gradually improved rapid control systems developed in academia and a commercial SCALEXIO system from industry are introduced and further compared. The main drawback of a commercial rapid control prototyping system is its cost. This background led to the idea to use the main processor of a standard PC itself to do the real-time work. Design guidelines will be given during the hardware- and software description of these rapid control prototyping systems. The Experimental results obtained by these systems are also given to present the their performance.