Electrical Drives
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Electrical Drives Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Electrical Drives (subject code 3710709) as prescribed for EE · Semester 1 divides the course into 5 units, covering 24 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 (3710709)Unit 1 Dynamics of Electric Drives
- Fundamentals of torque equation
- Speed torque convention and Multi- quadrant operation
- components of load torques
- Classification of load torques steady state stability
- Load equation
- Speed control and drive classification
- Close loop control of drives
Unit 2 DC motor Drives
- Modelling of DC machines
- Steady state characteristics with armature and speed control
- Phase controlled DC motor drives
- chopper controlled DC motor drives
Unit 3 Poly-phase induction machines
- Dynamic modelling of induction machines
- Small signal equations
- control characteristics of induction machines
- Phase-controlled induction machines
- Stator voltage control
- Slip energy recovery scheme
- frequency control and vector control of induction motor drives
Unit 4 Traction motor
- Speed-Time characteristics
- Traction motors used in practice
Unit 5 Industrial Drives
- Digital Control of Electric Drives
- BLDC motor drives
- Stepper motor
- Servo motor and their Applications. 8 21