National Institute of Technology Warangal

Department of Electrical Engineering

Advanced Electric Drives (EE5151)

1st M.Tech. (PED) 2nd Semester

310 (4 Credits)

Course Plan
Pre-requisites: Electric Drives (EE5101) and Advanced Power Electronics - I (EE5102)
Course Outcomes: At the end of the course the student will be able to:
CO1:
CO2:
CO3:
CO4:

Understand the Design concepts of dc motor drives.

Understand the modulation techniques for two-level three-phase power converters
Understand the power circuit topologies and the modulation techniques for multilevel converters.
Understand the behaviour of high performance induction Motor drives using the principles of
Vector Control and DTC.
CO5: Understand and apply the concept of vector control to PMSM drives.
Detailed Syllabus:
Control of separately excited dc motor drive:
Introduction-Review of dc motor drives-Speed control of a separately excited dc motor drive with
phase controlled converters, dual converters, multipulse converters and choppers.
(8 Classes)
Review of controllers-Need for anti-windup feature for integral controllers-Speed control of a
separately excited dc drive with inner current loop and outer speed loop-Design of current loop with
pole-zero cancellation-Design of speed-loop with symmetrical optimization technique. (7 Classes)
Control of IM drives:
Review of switching devices-Review of VSI and CSI-Introduction to PWM schemes for 1- VSI and
3- VSI: Sine PWM-SVM-Over modulation techniques.
(5 Classes)
Introduction to multilevel inverters: DCMLI, FCMLI, and CHB. Voltage control techniques: Sine PWM,
SVM. Simulation studies of Sine PWM and SVM.
(7 Classes)
Review of dq0 model of 3-Ph IM with simulation studies-Principle of vector control of IM-Direct
vector control-Indirect vector control with feedback-Indirect vector control with feed forwardIndirect vector control in various frames of reference-Decoupling of vector control with feed forward
compensation-Direct Torque Control of IM-Simulation studies
(18 Classes)
Vector control of PMSM drives:
Types of PM Synchronous motors-Torque developed by PMSM-Model of PMSM-Implementation of
vector control for PMSMintroduction to BLDC drives.
(7 Classes)
Reading:
1. B.K. Bose, Modern Power Electronics & AC Drives, Pearson Publishers, First edition.
2. R. Krishnan, Electric Motor Drives: Modeling, Analysis and Control, Prentice Hall Publishers.
3. Peter Vas, Vector Control of Electric Drives, Oxford Publishers.
4. Bin-Wu, High-power Converters and AC Drives, IEEE Press, John Wiley & Sons
5. Papers from journals