Advanced Electric Drives
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Advanced Electric Drives Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Advanced Electric Drives (subject code 3170916) as prescribed for Electrical Engineering · Semester 7 divides the course into 6 units, covering 30 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (3170916)Unit 1 Power Converters for AC drives
- PWM control of inverter
- selected harmonic elimination
- space vector modulation
- current control of VSI, three level inverter
- Different topologies
- SVM for 3 level inverter
- Diode rectifier with boost chopper
- PWM converter as line side rectifier
- current fed inverters with self-commutated devices
- Control of CSI, H bridge as a 4-Q drive
Unit 2 Induction motor drives
- Different transformations and reference frame theory
- modeling of induction machines
- voltage fed inverter control-v/f control
- vector control
- direct torque and flux control (DTC)
Unit 3 Synchronous motor drives
- Modeling of synchronous machines
- open loop v/f control
- vector control
- direct torque control
- CSI fed synchronous motor drives
Unit 4 Permanent magnet motor drives
- Introduction to various PM motors
- BLDC and PMSM drive configuration
- block diagrams
- Speed and torque control in BLDC and PMSM
Unit 5 Switched reluctance motor drives
- Evolution of switched reluctance motors
- various topologies for SRM drives
- Closed loop speed and torque control of SRM
Unit 6 DSP based motion control
- Use of DSPs in motion control
- various DSPs available
- realization of some basic blocks in DSP for implementation of DSP based motion control. 06 Subject Code: 3170916 w.e.f