AFC motor control using low cost and mobile data acquisition system with dsPIC30 microcontroller and Lubin Kerhuel blockset for MATLAB/Simulink

Data acquisition system (DAQ) plays an important role in research activities. Commercially available DAQ can be expensive and most are PC based and can be overly equipped for the task at hand. This paper proposes a low cost and mobile DAQ system with a dsPIC30 microcontroller form Microchip and program using Lubin Kerhuel Blockset for MATLAB/Simulink. An experimental rig consisting of a Maxon motor equipped with an Escon motor driver connected to a dsPIC30F3014 microcontroller was developed to demonstrate the potential of the proposed system. AFC was used as the control system and result from the experimental setup was presented in MATLAB/Simulink. Results clearly imply the viability of the proposed setu