Title
Vector-Flux Control of Induction Motors
DSP and FPGA technologies improve torque and dynamic response
Technologies used

DSP, FPGA

Industrial sector (PRODCOM code)
    333 Industrial Control
Abstract
Logibai, S.A. is a 17-employee Spanish company which designs, produces and sells since 1983 power electronic equipment such as: variable speed motor drives, UPS, battery chargers and lighting controls for industrial and commercial uses, mainly applications converting and stabilising electrical energy. The range of customers is very wide, from electricity supply companies to local administrations and industrial companies. The total company's revenues were 2 MEUR during 1997. The company belongs to the industrial sector of Industrial Control (NACE 33 in the classification system widely used in the EU).

The company is installing customised systems based on their own technology implemented by both discrete components and microcontrollers, carrying out tasks of supervision and diagnosis of power systems, charging batteries, motor speed variation, etc. These technologies - the only available at the company prior to the Application Experiment (AE) - have however a limited capability to innovate the current products and hence maintain their competitiveness.

The rationale of this AE was to regain the competitive edge that was lost due to the obsolescence of the previous product. The goal was the improvement of the performance of the existing variable speed motor drive, using for the first time a DSP-FPGA based control system. With this new technology the product can be improved in several features, such as: faster dynamic response, with a bandwidth of up to 1 KHz, keeping nominal torque at low speed (0 Hz) and cos j = 1.

This new control system has been developed in 15 months. The development cost of the project has been 90 KEUR to complete the prototypes and 42 additional KEUR for industrialisation. The total investment will be paid back in 38 months, and the expected ROI after 4 years is 150 %, equivalent to an average yearly rate of 11%.

The acquired experience will enable the company to improve other products, the first one being the synchronous rectifiers used in UPS and battery chargers.
Company
LOGIBAI, S.A.
PAE Asuarán, Pabellón 24 - Edificio Artxanda
48150 Sondika - Vizcaya
Spain
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