EE 5xx: Control of Electrical Machine Drives

Lecture Tuesday
Semester Fall Semester
Schedule (8:00 AM to 10:30 AM)

• Linear Systems Theory

Credit
Three Pre-requisite • Electric Machines (UG)
Hours
• A personal laptop

Dr. Syed Abdul Rahman abdulrahman@uet.edu.pk

Instructor Contact
Kashif twaseen786@gmail.com

Wednesday:
Electric Machines Lab,
(10:00 AM to 12:00 Noon)
Office Department of Electrical Office Hours
Tuesday:
Engineering
(10:30 AM – 12:00 Noon)

Electrical Machines drives will be discussed in detail in terms of performance, design,

Course control and implementation. Dynamic model of AC machines and their scalar and
Description vector control will be taught with special concentration on three phase induction
machine.

Upon completion of this course, students will:

• Understand the control of electrical machines
• Understand the role of power inverters in AC motor drives
• Be able to design a control for three phase induction machine.
Expected • Become familiar with analysis and performance of Induction motor.
Outcomes • Be familiarized with fuzzy logic, expert systems and ANNs for AC motor
drives.
• Have sufficient experience of using Simulink for motor control.
• Understand the basic control strategies of DC motor

REQUIRED:
• Modern Power Electronics and AC Drives by Bimal K. Bose, 2004.
Textbooks
• Power Converters and AC Electrical Drives with Linear Neural Networks by
Maurizio Cirrincione, Marcello Pucci and Gianpaolo Vitale, CRC Press 2013
• Electrical Machine Drives by Krishnan

• Quizzes/Assignments : 20%
Grading
• Mid Term 30%
Policy
• Final: 50%
Control of Electrical Machines Drives

Lecture Plan
Lectures
(No. Of Topics Readings
Weeks)
Control of DC Motor Drives
• State space model of DC machine Selected topics
3* • Control algorithms for DC machines from Krishnan
• Design and implementation of speed, torque and Book
position control in Simulink
AC Machines for Drives
In this lecture basic concept of three-phase induction motor
will be reviewed. Its basic steady state model will be
discussed.
• Steady state model of a three-phase induction machine
1* • Torque speed characteristic (Effect of voltage and Chapter 2
frequency)
• Variable frequency operation
• V/f control of induction machine
• Effect of harmonics on torque
• Parameter Variation
Dynamic Model of a three phase machine
• Axis Transformation
• Synchronously rotating reference frame – Dynamic
model (Krone Equation)
Chapter 2
2* • Stationary frame – Dynamic Model (Stanely Equation)
• Dynamic Model State Space Equations
• Implementation of dynamic-model in Simulink
• Implementation of Clark and Park Transformation in
Simulink
Role of Power Inverters in AC Motor Control
• Frequency and Voltage Control
Chapter 5
• 180 degree conduction inverter
1* and
• Space Vector Modulation based Inverter notes
• Simulation of Power Inverters with different control
schemes in Simulink
Space Vector PWM
1* Use of different space vector PWM algorithms and their Notes
comparison. Performance of SVPWM for AC motor drives
Scalar Control and Vector Control of Induction
Motor
• Scalar Control and Vector Control
3* Chapter 8
• Principles of vector control
• Direct – Feedback control
• Indirect—Feedforward vector control

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Control of Electrical Machines Drives

• Voltage and current model for flux vector estimation.

• Implementation of Vector control in Simulink
Sensor-Less Control of Induction Motor
• Speed Estimation Methods
• Estimation of flux
• Estimation of torque
1* Chapter 8
• Effect of parametric variations
• Different algorithms for sensor-less control
• Implementation of sensor-less control in Simulink

Direct Toque Control of Induction Motor

• Principle of DTC
1* • Use of SVPWM in DTC Chapter 8
• Control Strategies of DTC
• Implementation in Simulink
Fuzzy Logic based Control of Three phase
Induction Motor
• Introduction to fuzzy logic and fuzzy sets
• Development of a fuzzy system
• Implication Methods (Mamdani, Lusing-Larson type,
Sugeno type)
2* • Defuzzification methods Chapter 11
• Fuzzy control
• Design methodology using fuzzy logic
• Use of fuzzy logic for speed control of induction motor
• Use of fuzzy logic in vector control drives
• Implementation of fuzzy logic based control of three
phase induction motor in Simulink
Expert System and Neural Network for Motor
Drive Control Chapter 10
1* and 12
Basics of expert systems and neural networks and their
applications in AC motor control

*- Tentative

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