Course Electric Machines 7: BLDC/servo motors

Includes:

• 1 Experiment card featuring a brushless DC (BLDC) motor with electronic commutation, speed and torque control plus Hall sensors for measuring speed
• Storage case
• LabSoft browser and course software 

Course contents:

• Introduction to common applications of BLDC motors
• Introduction to design and function of BLDC motors
• Experimental investigation of how BLDC motors work
• Advantages and disadvantages of BLDC motors
• Introduction to various circuits for controlling BLDC motors: square and sine-wave current signals
• Measurement and analysis of circuits
• Introduction to various methods of detecting rotor position: Hall sensors, back-emf, pole detection, resolvers and incremental sensors
• Measurement of position using Hall sensors
• Introduction to current and speed control of BLDC motors
• Experimental investigation of speed control
• Setting parameters for speed control
• Course duration: 5 h approx.