PROJECT INFORMATION
Dr. Yaramasu currently teaches EE403 Electric Drives and EE503 Advanced Electric Drives courses at NAU in Spring semesters. These co-convened courses use dSPACE DS1104 and MATLAB/Simulink based hardware labs that are designed and distributed by the University of Minnesota. These hardware labs are quite expensive with dSPACE hardware costing $4000 per unit and software upgrades costing $300 per unit. The problem is that upgrading or adding hardware and software with this solution is expensive. It’s also extremely difficult for students to replicate this solution at home. This is continuation project from AY18-19. The last year’s students verified that all the dSPACEbased experiments can be implemented with the Arduino control board which costs typically $100. The objective for this year’s capstone team is to design compact inverter board and combine with the Arduino controller and make the kits ready for deployment at NAU. This work could be used as a prototype for using Arduinos in the Electric Drives class at NAU or any other university. This work could make Electrical Engineering curriculum more accessible to universities that don’t have expensive hardware to support an electric drives class. It could also be a platform small startups or hobbyists could use to develop a hardware design
