Course

Industrial Drives - Power Electronics

Indian Institute of Science Bangalore

Course contents:

  1. Introduction - Classification of Electric Drives, Requirements of Electric Drives, Some Applications.
  2. Converters and control - Phase controlled converters, Four quadrant operation, Choppers, AC to DC converters.
  3. DC motor drives - Speed-torque characteristics DC shunt, PMDC and series motors, Dynamic model, Speed and position control methods.
  4. Inverters and PWM techniques - voltage source inverters, current source inverters, PWM techniques (sine-triangle comparison, harmonic elimination, hysteresis current controllers, space vector pwm).
  5. AC motor drives - d-q model of induction motor, constant flux speed control structure, vector control model, vector control structure.
Course Lectures