Design And Construction Of A Microcontroller Based Four Quadrant Speed Control System

1.0 INTRODUCTION

1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

DC machines play a very important role in industries and in our daily life. The outstanding advantage of DC machines is that they offer easily controllable characteristics. This paper is designed to develop a four quadrant speed control system for a DC motor using microcontroller. The motor is operated in four quadrants i.e. clockwise, counter clock-wise, forward brake and reverse brake. It also has a feature of speed control.

The four quadrant operation of the dc motor is best suited for industries where motors are used and as per requirement they can rotate in clockwise, counter-clockwise and also apply brakes immediately in both the directions. In case of a specific operation in industrial environment, the motor needs to be stopped immediately. In such scenario, this proposed system is ver y apt as forward brake and reverse brake are its integral features. In this work the concept of four quadrant speed control i.e. clockwise movement, anticlockwise movement, instantaneous forward braking and instantaneous reverse braking of a dc motor with the help of microcontroller through motor driver (L293D) has been proposed.

1.1 OBJECTIVE OF THE PROJECT

The objective of this work is to develop a four quadrant speed control system for a DC motor using microcontroller. The motor is operated in four quadrants i.e. clockwise, counter clock-wise, forward brake and reverse brake.

1.2 SCOPE OF THE PROJECT

Motor can be operated at various speeds based on the requirement of the application using motor speed control techniques. To achieve DC motor speed control, we need to interface the DC motor with 8051 microcontroller. The four quadrant operation of DC motor such as clockwise rotation, anti-clockwise rotation, forward braking operation, and reverse braking operation can be performed using 8051 microcontroller based circuits.

1.3 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE PROJECT

But in some practical applications, motors are required to operate both in a clockwise direction, anti-clockwise direction, reverse braking, forward braking conditions. These modes of operation of DC motors can be achieved using four quadrant DC motor speed control with microcontroller.

The project is useful to be used in industries for moving motors in both directions i.e. clockwise and anti-clockwise and can even apply forward and reverse brakes whenever required.

The brakes functions by applying a reverse voltage in the motor for certain time. The speed is controlled by generating PWM pulses from microcontroller of 8051 family. A pair of push buttons is interfaced to microcontroller which is interfaced to operation motor by motor driver IC. The signals from the button are input to the microcontroller that in turn actuates motors in controlling speed.

1.4 PURPOSE OF THE PROJECT

The objective of this work is to control in clockwise direction, anti-clockwise direction, reverse braking, forward braking conditions.

1.5 APPLICATION OF THE PROJECT

This device is found useful in the following machines:

1. electrical DC motors,
2. AC motors,
3. synchronous motors,
4. induction motors,
5. stepper motors

1.6 PROJECT WORK ORGANISATION

The various stages involved in the development of this project have been properly put into five chapters to enhance comprehensive and concise reading. In this project thesis, the project is organized sequentially as follows:

Chapter one of this works is on the introduction to the study. In this chapter, significance, objective, purpose, application of the study were discussed.

Chapter two is on literature review of this study. In this chapter, all the literature pertaining to this work was reviewed.

Chapter three is on design methodology. In this chapter all the method involved during the design and construction were discussed.

Chapter four is on testing analysis. All testing that result accurate functionality was analyzed.

Chapter five is on conclusion, recommendation and references.