Control of Electric Drives
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The official GTU curriculum for Control of Electric Drives (subject code 2162003) as prescribed for Mechatronics · Semester 6 divides the course into 4 units, covering 29 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 (2162003)Unit 1 Introduction
- Electrical Drives
- Advantages of electrical drives
- parts of electrical drives
- choice of electrical drives
Unit 2 Dynamics of electrical drives
- Fundamental torque equation
- speed torque conventions and multiquadrant operations
- equivalent values of drive parameters
- components of load torques
- nature and classification of load torques
- calculation of time and energy-loss in transient operations
- steady state stability
- load equalization
Unit 3 Basics of drive control
- Modes of operation
- speed control and drive classifications
- closed- loop control of drives
Unit 4 Concepts of Power Electronics
- Thyristors: terminal characteristics
- turn on methods
- design of snubber circuit
- series and parallel operation
- DIAC and TRIAC Phase Controlled Rectifiers: principle of phase control
- single phase and three phase half wave and full wave controlled converters with various types of load
- Choppers: principle of chopper operation
- control strategies of chopper operation
- step up and step down choppers
- types of chopper circuits
- steady state time domain analysis of type-A chopper
- Inverters: single phase voltage source inverter
- three phase bridge inverters
- voltage control in single phase bridge inverters
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