Project Portfolio Spotlight: Electric Motor NVH and Functional Tester

Objective:
Partner with a local machine builder to create the controls, safeties and processing engine for a set of electric motor performance and NVH dynamometers.

Key Functional Elements:

  • SPI communication in FPGA
  • Torque control via SENT protocol
  • CAN XCP data streams defined with A2L file
  • CANopen communications to drives
  • GPIB control for synchronization of configurable power supplies
  • Real-time FFTs of dynamic channels
  • High-speed acquisition and synchronization of all data sources
  • 6 DOF load cells with real-time calculated moments
  • Custom test profile definition with logging capabilities

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