Advanced Electric Drives
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Advanced Electric Drives Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Advanced Electric Drives (subject code 3730716) as prescribed for EE · Semester 3 divides the course into 3 units, covering 22 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 (3730716)Unit 1 Vector Control of Induction Motor
- Principles of vector control
- direct vector control
- derivation of indirect vector control
- implementation-block diagram
- estimation of flux
- flux weakening operation
- DTC principle
- operation and control and its comparison with vector control of IM
Unit 2 Sensorless Vector Control of Induction Motor
- Slip and speed estimation at low performance
- rotor angle and flux linkage estimation at high performance
- rotor speed estimation scheme
- estimators using rotor slot harmonics
- model reference adaptive systems
- extended Kalman filter
- injection of auxiliary signal on salient rotor
Unit 3 Control of Synchronous Motor Drives
- Synchronous motor and its characteristics- Control strategies-Constant torque angle control- power factor control
- constant flux control
- flux weakening operation
- Load commutated inverter fed synchronous motor drive
- motoring and regeneration
- phasor diagrams
- Sensorless control and flux observer 8 Subject Code: 3730716 w.e.f