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.

Linear systems and their study in the time domain. The Laplace transform and analysis of a system in the "s" domain. Representation of transfer functions in the frequency domain, transfer function implementation, and Bode plot in MATLAB/Simulink environment.
P, PI, PID industrial regulators. Architectures and main characteristics of open loop and closed loop control systems.
Current sensors: shunt resistor, Hall effect sensor. Operating principle of voltage sensors. Position and speed sensors: tachymetric dynamo, absolute and incremental encoder, resolver.

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 embedded control systems with PLC, microcontrollers, DSP, and FPGA: operating and programming characteristics. Introduction to National Instruments LabVIEW software for electrical drives. Future trends and developments of electric drives.

In addition to the lecture notes provided by the teacher
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
Digital Integrated Circuits, by Jan M. Rabaey, Anantha Chandrakasan, and Borivoje Nikolic, Prentice Hall
Electrical Circuit, Charles K. Alexander, Matthew N. O. Sadiku, Giambattista Gruosso, Giancarlo Storti Gajani