Investigation on Various Voltage Controllers for 3 Phase Rectifier Using Arduino as a Low Cost Microcontroller

This paper focuses on investigation of various voltage controllers which are the Proportional Integration Derivative (PID) control and P-Resonant control in order to observe the efficiency of the low cost microcontroller such as Arduino for the gating signals generation. Both of the controllers have been selected due to the availabality of the block diagrams that can be build in the MATLAB. The MATLAB-Simulink block will be used as the interface between the design controller to the Arduino board before downloaded into Arduino. The results show, the Arduino is able to operate from various controllers but it gives better result when the P-Resonant controller has been used.