Features of Electric Drive System: Before applying advantageously the control principles to electric drive systems to adjust or improve their behaviour as a special case of control problem, it is…
Introduction Control Techniques in Electric Drives: An electric drive is a well established industrial drive as it has several advantages and special features. Its Control Techniques consists in starting, speed…
Electric Motor Power Loss and Heating: An Electric Motor Power Loss and Heating occurring in its various parts such as copper losses occurring in armature and field and eddy currents…
Three Phase Drives: Single phase drives discussed in the previous section are employed for low and medium powers. When the power of the drive is very large the three-phase converter…
Commutation in DC Motor: Commutation and commutator wear and tear of the dc motor must be given due consideration when the motor operates on solid state converters. Spark-less commutation must…
Field Oriented Control of Induction Motor: In the slip controlled drives using VSI or CSI discussed in the foregoing sections, the stator voltage or stator current is controlled using slip…
Current Source Inverter Fed Induction Motor Drive: Current Source Inverter Fed Induction Motor Drive - In a voltage source inverter fed induction motor the applied voltage to the stator is…
Speed Control of Variable Frequency Induction Motor: Speed Control of Variable Frequency Induction Motor of a squirrel cage induction motor can be controlled very effectively by varying the stator frequency.…