Prototype Hardware

The UTK team will work with Mercedes-Benz team to simulate the six-phase motor control and externally excited motor control. After that, the UTK team will lay out the SiC inverter, code the control algorithm in Xilinx FPGA and do the high-power test using high-power dyno in CURENT. Given SiC devices have much higher switching frequency than Si, it can potentially reduce the differential-mode current while yielding higher common-mode voltage current. The project expects to generate a mixed PWM pattern under different speed/torque scenarios to comprehensively reduce the common-mode and differential-mode current, all implemented in the high-resolution FPGA.