Università Roma Tre

Introduction to electric drives: definition and classification of electric drives, elements of an electric drive, goals and performance of electric drives, and types of service.
Operating principle of power semiconductor devices: operating characteristics; turn-on and turn-off transients; conduction and switching losses. Fundamentals of static power conversions: AC/DC converters, DC-AC converters, AC-AC converters. Modulation techniques with the carrier-based approach.
Introduction to MATLAB/Simulink software.
P, PI, PID industrial regulators. Architectures and main characteristics of open loop and closed loop control systems.

Review of magnetic circuits and the operating principle of electric machines. Electric drives with the synchronous machine: dynamic model of the machine and operation analysis in the sinusoidal regime. Control strategies in wound rotor, permanent magnet, and reluctance synchronous machine electric drives. Synthesis of control systems for electric drives with the synchronous machine using MATLAB/Simulink.
Electric drives with the asynchronous machine: dynamic model of the machine and analysis of operation in the sinusoidal regime. Control strategies in electric drives with the asynchronous machine. Realization of electric drives with the asynchronous machine in MATLAB/Simulink environment.

Introduction to National Instruments LabVIEW software for electrical drives. Future trends and developments of electric drives.

Ion Boldea, Syed A. Nasar
Electric Drives, Third Edition 2016 by CRC Press
ISBN 9781498748209

Bimal K. Bose
Modern Power Electronics and AC Drives
Prentice Hall PTR, 2002

Ned Mohan, Tore M. Undeland, William P. Robbins
Power Electronics: Converters, Applications, and Design
ISBN: 0471226939

Ned Mohan
Advanced Electric Drives: Analysis, Control, and Modeling Using MATLAB / Simulink
ISBN: 978-1-118-48548-4

Ned Mohan
Electric Drives: An Integrative Approach
ISBN: 0971529256