Research on the Controller and Human-Computer Interface for the Voltage Disturbance Device

How to solve power quality problems is a research focus recently. It's of great significance to research and design the voltage disturbance device for the voltage compensation device's development and various experimental verifications. The all-digital controller is based on DSP and FPGA. The human-computer interface is designed by LabVIEW, a graphical software development environment most widely used in test, control and design fields currently. LabVIEW program runs on IPC and VISA technology is applied to realize the serial communication with DSP to control the device operation. Menu-driven interface is designed according to a novel design pattern combined with the state machine and the event structure. Based on the data signal processing technology and flexible graphical panel interface of LabVIEW's advantages, voltage disturbance experiments such as the voltage sag and swell, over voltage and under voltage, voltage fluctuation and flicker, voltage unbalance, harmonic and complex disturbances are carried out. In this paper, the working principle and design procedure of human-computer interface are researched. The verification tests are carried out to explain the functions. It's a successful application case of LabVIEW.