Askoll Cinque - Electronics department

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Electronics dept

The electronics department

The Askoll group’s electronic design know-how, from research through to product engineering, is concentrated in the Electronics Department. It interacts closely with the electrical department on research work, given that the architecture of the driver is close correlated to the controlled electric motor. This is why the design work is backed up by advanced instruments, particularly by computer simulation, which allows the behaviour of the complete machine in transient and permanent conditions to be described.

This is a very important advantage which offers general simulation, once the model has been refined with .experimental .verification, and verification of the motor’s behaviour in conditions otherwise impossible in the laboratory, for example, determining the magnetic flux in a given section of the ferromagnetic material or the behaviour of the driver in overspeed. The research work includes designing firmware and software for microcontrollers and DSP, even pushing into the sector of microelectronics: asic, mixed, analogue and digital integrated circuits have been internally designed.

The department also has laboratories with equipment and instrumentation capable of performing all types of electric and electronic measurements.

Equipment

The Electronic Department uses the Matlab program for development and optimisation of control algorithms. For modelling, analysis and simulation of the mathematical and physical systems, the researchers use Simulink software which allows models to be built up with block diagrams. Electronic circuits very close to real applications are also designed and their operation simulated with other design environments.

The lay-out is then made using special programs and so the prototypes can be built for testing. The testing laboratory is able to perform electrical and electronic measurements and EMC compatibility measurements to determine the functional performance of the prototypes, decisively contributing to validation of the numeric model. merico.