Title
A Versatile Power Electronics Test-Bench Architecture Applied to Domestic Induction Heating
Abstract
The design of new power-converter solutions optimized for specific applications requires, at a certain step, the design and implementation of several prototypes in order to verify the converter operation. This is a time-consuming task which also involves a significant economical cost. The aim of this paper is to present a versatile power electronics architecture which provides a tool to make the implementation and evaluation of new power converters straightforward. The adopted platform includes a versatile control architecture and a modular power electronics hardware solution. The control architecture is a field-programmable-gate-array-based system-on-programmable-chip solution which combines the advantages of the processor-firmware versatility and the effectiveness of ad hoc paralleled digital hardware. Moreover, the modular power electronics hardware provides a fast method to reconfigure the power-converter topology. The architecture proposed in this paper has been applied to the development of power converters for domestic induction heating, although it can be extended to other applications with similar requirements. A complete development test bench has been carried out, and some experimental results are shown in order to verify the proper system operation.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1109/TIE.2010.2048840
Industrial Electronics, IEEE Transactions
Keywords
Field
DocType
induction heating,power convertors,power electronics,domestic induction heating,field-programmable-gate-array-based system-on-programmable-chip,modular power electronics hardware,power-converter solutions,power-converter topology,versatile power electronics test-bench architecture,Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs),induction heating (IH),resonant power conversion
Architecture,Test bench,Control engineering,Converters,Cogeneration,Power electronics,Modular design,Control system,Engineering,Topology (electrical circuits)
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
58
3
0278-0046
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.59
12
Authors
9
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
O. Lucia115827.96
Barragan, L.A.220.59
J. Burdio35811.30
O. Jimenez420.59
D. Navarro53010.13
I. Urriza6266.92
Lucía, O.720.59
Burdío, J.M.820.59
Jiménez, O.920.59