Implementation of an Embedded Induction Motor Test and

Analysis System

As induction motors are widely applied in the variant of fields, such as industry,

agriculture, transportation, etc., testing induction motors is paid a lot of attention. Many

researchers have put a lot of effort and time on this issue. In the past, many efforts have been put

on how to build the induction motor test systems with the traditionally single chip

microcontrollers. The problem is that the systems based on the single chip microcontrollers are

not flexible, the computing and processing speeds are slow, and the storage for the inter-

processed data is small. When the accuracy of analysis and diagnosis is critical and the real-time

demand is necessary, the systems mentioned above cannot meet the needs.

Existing System:

In the existing system the induction motor is tested and analyzed using current and

voltage sensor and requires some complex hardware’s to test the induction motor.

Proposed System:

The PIC microcontroller has higher processing speed than the single chip

microcontrollers, which can meet the real-time need. Its large storage spaces of ROM and

EEPROM are enough for some intermediate processes. Furthermore, the plenty of the hardware

peripherals and mixing programming with languages of C and assemble can make the test system

flexible and portable. The size of the test system can be quite small and compact. This embedded

induction motor test and system is built up with the PIC16F877A microcontroller. The current
and voltage of the stator winding is measured using sensors. PIC microcontroller has inbuilt

ADC which converts the sensor values to digital and the digital data is transferred to PC section

via zigbee transceiver. In PC section we have another zigbee to receive the data and then the data

will be transferred to the serial port via max232 IC.

Block Diagram:

Induction motor section:

Power
PowerSupply
Supply

Driver
Current
CurrentSensor
Sensor DriverCircuit
Circuit

PIC
PIC
Microcontroller
Microcontroller Induction
Voltage
Voltagesensor
sensor Induction
Motor
Motor

Zigbee
Zigbee
Monitoring Section:

Power
PowerSupply
Supply

Zigbee MAX232 PC
Zigbee MAX232 PC

Hardware requirements:

 PIC16F877A Microcontroller.

 Current Sensor.

 Voltage sensor.

 Zigbee Transceiver.

 Max 232 circuit

 Driver Circuit.

 Induction Motor

 PC

Software requirements:

 Embedded C

 MPLAB or CCS Compiler.

 VB
Advantages:

 Precise speed control is achieved using PWM technique.

 Fast switching and control.