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MathWorks is please to offer a new training course, Power Electronics Control Design with Simulink and Simscape.
This one-day course focuses on modeling and controlling power electronic systems in the Simulink® environment using Simscape Electrical™. Topics include:
- Modeling direct current (dc) power electronic components
- Controlling the level of fidelity in a model
- Developing controls for power electronics
- Modeling three-phase alternating current (ac) power electronic components
- Controlling power electronics for motor drive applications
Check out this short video on the new features in Simulink R2020a . What's your favorite new feature?
This article describes a six-step workflow for estimating the frequency response of an open-loop boost converter.
Estimating the Frequency Response of a Power Electronics Model
Model-Based Design speeds up developing embedded software for controllers in power electronics-based systems. Wherever you plan to use digital controls, you can use Model-Based Design to develop, test, and implement your algorithms. You can learn more about Model-Based Design in this white paper .
Lithium-ion batteries play an important role in the success of electric vehicles, energy storage, and a host of other devices and equipment in our daily lives. Read the announcement here.
Learn more about how MathWorks enables the use of Lithium-ion battery technology
Visit MathWorks at booth 218 during the IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE) in Baltimore, Sept. 29 - Oct. 3. We will be partnering with Speedgoat to show real-time simulation solutions for power electronics control design. Also, join us for a panel session, The Role of Simulation Software for Power Electronics Control Design in Education, that will be held Thursday, Oct. 3.
MathWorks offers training for Simscape Electrical , but if you are looking for an online course, take a look at this offer.
MATLAB for Power Electronics: Simulation & Analysis
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IEEE PELS is holding it's second workshop for Design Automation for Power Electronics (DAPE). Started by Alan Mantooth and Miroslav Vasic, this workshop brings together experts to discuss the current and future direction of design automation for developing power electronics based systems. I was fortunate enough to participate last year when it was held during ECCE 2018. Alan and Miroslav did a great job to arrange the all-day session that covered trends and needs in power electronics in the Automotive and Aerospace industries. You can read an article about the workshop published in IEEE PELS magazine. You'll need to log in with your IEEE membership credentials.
It's an exciting time in power electronics with the expansion of electric vehicles, renewable energy, and general drive towards more efficient generation, delivery, and consumption of electricity. Power electronics makes all of this possible. Software is evolving to keep up with this boom to make it easier to develop power electronics-based systems.
Many microcontroller companies support motor control development using Simulink and Embedded Coder. Here are some interesting reads about some of them. Do you know others? Let us know with your reply.
The new generation of power semiconductors is making it's way into the mainstream. IEEE is hosting a webinar with Brij Singh of John Deere, who will talk about the application of SiC in an inverter for a commercial loader. You can read the abstract and register here.
Also, there is a ouTube video of a hybrid loader shown here Pretty cool.
Solar power is the fastest growing form of renewable energy. One challenge is that is requires sunlight, which means once the sun sets, you don't generate power. Energy storage (large battery packs) is one solution to capturing excess power during daylight for use during night time. Recently, Design News covered Tesla's Megapack energy storage solution. I think this is a great example of what needs to be done, to be sure, other companies are providing similar solutions, like NEC Energy Storage .
These systems have another benefit, too. They are a fast-acting form of dispatchable power , that along with renewable power, can provide stability to the power grid.
Please share your thoughts on grid-level energy storage. Is it a key component or nice to have?
With the need for higher sampling frequencies, power electronics control engineers are moving some of their controller implementations to FPGAs or FPGA-based SoCs. Besides the use of wide-band gap semiconductors (GaN and SiC), what other reasons are driving the need for higher controller sampling frequencies? Let us know your thoughts.
