Multipurpose platform for control of 3-phase and 5-phase induction machines integrated with MATLAB/Simulink®

Computer aided design tools are nowadays important for a variety of engineering fields. One of the most used tool is MATLAB/Simulink®, which has a broad variety of libraries and is recognized by its reliability. This paper presents a toolbox library for simulation and prototyping of control techniques for three and five phase induction machines, developed in MATLAB/Simulink®and to be used with dSPACE®DS-1104 platform. The software tools and the hardware platform are both described and provide an integrated environment which allows the user to develop and evaluate control techniques for induction machines by means of pure simulation as well as executing them on an underlying hardware platform connected to the machine. The transition from simulation to a hardware platform are done transparently for the user using rapid prototyping tools.