Advanced laboratory setup for control of electrical drives as an educational and developmental tool

A new advanced laboratory setup has been developed on the Faculty of Technical Sciences, Group of Power Electronic and Drives. The idea behind this laboratory setup is to establish a base for research and development work in the field of electrical drives and digital control. It serves as an educational tool for MSc and PhD students, as well as the research foundation with its sophisticated hardware and software arrangements. Basis of the hardware consists of dSPACE platform and its corresponding boards, alongside with industrial converters with custom-made control board, for the development of own personal control techniques. Corresponding software is RealTime Interface block-set and Matlab/Simulink. This paper aims to show a part of research work done on this setup, thus describing its educational and developmental potential.