ECE 568 - Modeling and Control of Electromechanical Systems

Summer 2009 | Fall 2009 | Spring 2010 | Summer 2010
Subject Area Power and Energy Systems
Course Prerequisites Credit in ECE 431
Credit in ECE 515
Course Directors Philip T Krein
Description Fundamental electrical and mechanical laws for derivation of dynamic models of electrical machines; simplifying transformations for machine variables; power electronics for motor control; drive systems and basic control schemes; nonlinear control as applied to electrical machines, including feedback linearization and averaging techniques. Typical electromechanical applications in actuators, robotics, variable speed drive systems, electric and hybrid vehicles, and alternative energy systems.
Notes Same as ME 565.
Credit 4 hours.
Topics
  • Advanced electromechanics: analysis of electrical machines, electrostatic machines, electromechanical sensors, harmonic effects
  • Examples of machines and their dynamic models: equations of dc machines, permanent magnet modeling, synchronous motors, Park's transformation, induction motors, general rotating transformations
  • Models and circuits for electrical drives: Drive system models for electrical and mechanical terminals, power electronics for control of electrical machines, drive control objectives, dynamic examples, ac motor control methods including field-oriented control, models of vehicle loads, models of windmills and other loads
  • Applied nonlinear system methods for drives: periodic system transformations, averaging theory, time-scale separation, variable-structure control applications, feedback linearization
Course Prerequisites ECE 431 and ECE 515
Texts Notes and current papers.

Recommended:
W. Leonhard, Control of Electrical drives, Springer-Verlag, 2001.
P. Krause, D. Wasynczuk, and S. D. Sudhoff, Analysis of Electric Machinery, IEEE Press, 2002.