MATLAB Power Electronics Projects in Punjab

Power electronics simulation is unforgiving. A model can run and still be wrong because of a bad solver setting, a missing snubber or a gate pulse that does not match the switching frequency. Mentoring focuses on getting the model right and understanding why waveforms look the way they do.

Typical project families

Projects usually fall into a few families, and the choice depends on your syllabus and the toolboxes you can use:

• DC-DC converters: buck, boost and buck-boost, open loop and with voltage or current control
• Rectifiers and AC-DC converters with power factor discussion
• Single-phase and three-phase inverters using PWM, SPWM and basic space vector ideas
• Motor drives: DC motor speed control, induction motor V/f control, introduction to vector control
• Solar photovoltaic systems: PV array model, MPPT with perturb and observe or incremental conductance
• Battery charging and bidirectional converters
• Harmonic analysis and filter design for inverter outputs

The modelling approach

Most work is done in Simulink with the physical modelling blocks for electrical systems. The mentor encourages a step-by-step build: start with an ideal switch and resistive load, confirm the voltage and current against hand calculations, then add inductor and capacitor, then the controller. Checking each stage against theory, such as the output voltage of a buck converter being duty cycle times input in continuous conduction, catches errors early.

Understanding what the waveforms say

Students are asked to read results, not just screenshot them. Why is there inductor current ripple? What sets the output voltage ripple? How does total harmonic distortion change when the carrier frequency is raised? Discrete versus continuous solvers, fixed step size and sample time of the controller are also discussed, since they affect both accuracy and run time.

Support across Punjab

Sessions can take place at the Mohali location for students who can visit. For students from other parts of Punjab, online review is available on request, where you share the model and the mentor reviews the structure and the results. The same approach works for diploma, B.Tech and M.Tech learners.

Scope and responsibility

Mentoring includes explanation, review and guidance. The design calculations, simulation, analysis and report are the student's own work. No marks, acceptance or publication can be promised.

Share your topic, deadline and software access on enquiry; schedule and terms are confirmed then.

What this includes

• Buck and boost converters
• Rectifier models
• PWM and SPWM inverters
• Three-phase inverter basics
• DC motor speed control
• Induction motor V/f control
• Solar PV array modelling
• MPPT algorithms
• Battery charging models
• Harmonic analysis and THD
• Solver and step size settings

Scope and deliverables are confirmed with you before work starts.

Who this is for

• EEE and electronics final-year students
• M.Tech students in power electronics or drives
• Diploma electrical students
• Learners working on solar or EV related topics
• Students moving from circuit theory to converter simulation

What you get

• Build converter and inverter models in Simulink
• Verify simulation against hand calculations
• Implement basic closed-loop control for converters
• Interpret ripple, THD and efficiency results
• Set solver and sample time sensibly
• Explain the design choices in a viva

How it is delivered

Mentoring for power electronics projects is available at Brain Birds Technologies in Mohali, with online review sessions on request for students elsewhere in Punjab. Work proceeds from topic discussion to staged model building, checking against theory and result review. Scheduling follows your submission dates and is confirmed on enquiry. The design, simulation and report remain the student's work.

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