Raindrop Algorithm based AWPI Controller Tuned Chopper Driven PMDC Motor Muthukrishnan S*, Sundaram S Saravana**, Gopalraj Murugananth*** *Sri Eshwar College of Engineering, Coimbatore, India **Hindustan College of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore, India ***Ahalia School of Engineering and Technology, Palakkad, India Online published on 9 November, 2016. Abstract Permanent Magnet DC motors find wide application in precision control system applications viz. surgical equipment. Conventional PI controller based chopper drive are being employed in these motor drives. To enhance the performance of the drive, this paper suggests, an efficient Raindrop algorithm based controller Anti-Windup PI controller. The proposed drive system has been simulated using Matlab/Simulink. The simulated results have been validated using a low cost PIC microcontroller based experimental setup. The comparative studies has proven that the proposed system has an edge over the conventional drive system. Top Keywords Anti-Windup, Chopper, PI controller, Raindrop, Peak overshoot, steady state error. Top |