Power Electronics and Drives
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The official GTU curriculum for Power Electronics and Drives (subject code BE05041061) as prescribed for Robotics · Semester 5 divides the course into 6 units, covering 50 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 (BE05041061)Unit 1 Introduction
- Overview of power electronic converters and their applications
- Power Semiconductor Devices
- datasheet interpretation
- Gate driver circuits
- isolation and protection circuits
Unit 2 AC to DC Converter
- Single Phase AC to DC Converters: Half
- Semi and full wave Controlled Rectifiers with R, RL and RLE loads
- discontinuous and inversion mode of operation
- Performance parameters
- Three Phase AC to DC Converter : Three Phase Half Wave and Full Wave Controlled Rectifier with R, RL, RLE loads
- Dual Converter with circulating and non-circulating current mode
- Effect of source inductance in controlled rectifiers
- Power factor improvement techniques
- Applications of AC-DC converters
- Introduction to PWM rectifiers
Unit 3 DC to DC Converter
- Importance & Requirement of DC Power Supply
- Non-Isolated DC-DC converters
- Principles of step-down and step-up converters
- Continuous conduction and Discontinuous conduction operation – classification of chopper
- Control strategy
- Steady state time domain analysis
- current and load commutated choppers
- Chopper configurations: Voltage Commutated
- Current Commutated
- Load Commutated Chopper
- SEPIC & ZETA converters
Unit 4 Fundamental of Electric Drives
- Concept/Block diagram of electric drive
- Types of loads and Speed-Torque Characteristics
- Basic characteristics of DC motors
- Two zone operation
- Four quadrant operation (Operating modes)
- Principles of DC motor speed control Multi-quadrant operation of Drives
- Selection of Power rating
Unit 5 DC Drives
- Analysis of separately excited dc motor with continuous and discontinuous mode of operations
- closed loop control of dc motor drives
- analysis of dc series motor drives
- single-phase and three-phase controlled rectifier fed dc motors
- Performance characteristics and analysis of chopper fed dc motors
- motoring and braking operations
- phase locked loop control of dc drives
- DC servo Drives
- Servo motors
- position control
Unit 6 BLDC and PM motor Drives
- BLDC motor construction
- speed control of BLDC motors
- converters for BLDC motor control
- Permanent Magnet Motor Drives
- Switch Reluctance Motor Drives
- SR converters
- Configuration and control of Drives
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