Applied Control of Electrical Drives

Prof. Dr. Ir. Duco Pulle is  University Guest Professor at The Institute for Power Electronics and Electrical Drives (ISEA) at RWTH Aachen University. He has published  over 30  technical papers and is the named inventor on 3 patents and the co-author of Applied control of electrical drives (Springer 2015), Advanced Electrical Drives: Analysis, Modeling, Control (Springer, 2020) and Fundamentals of Electrical Drives (Springer, 2016).Prof. Dr. Ir. Rik W. De Doncker is Professor of Electrical Engineering at Aachen University of Technology, Aachen, Germany, where he leads the Institute for Power Electronics and Electrical Drives. He is past and founding Director of the E.ON Energy Research Center at RWTH Aachen University, where he leads the Institute for Power Generation and Storage Systems. He also leads the German Fed. Gover. Research Campus Flexible Electrical Networks. He has published over 700 technical papers and holds 30 patents, with several pending. He is a past president of the IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS) and was the founding Chairman of the German IEEE IAS-PELS Joint Chapter. Dr. De Doncker is a recipient of the IAS Outstanding Achievements Award, the IEEE Power Engineering Custom Power Award and the IEEE Medal in Power Engineering. He is a co-author of the books Advanced Electrical Drives: Analysis, Modeling, Control (Springer, 2020), Semiconductor Power Devices: Physics, Characteristics, Reliability (Springer, 2018), and Fundamentals of Electrical Drives (Springer, 2016). He is a member of the German Academy of Science and Technology (ACATECH)Dr. Ir. André Veltman is the Director of Piak Electronic Design B.V. in the Netherlands. He has published over 30 technical papers and is the named inventor on more than 15 patents and is co-author of the books Applied control of electrical drives (Springer 2015), Advanced Electrical Drives: Analysis, Modeling, Control (Springer, 2020) and Fundamentals of Electrical Drives  (Springer, 2016).

• Introduction.- Simple electro magnetic circuits.- The transformer.- Three phase circuits.- Concept of real and reactive power.- Space vector based transformer models.- Introduction to electrical machines.- Voltage source connected synchronous machines.- Voltage source connected asynchronous induction machines.- Direct current machines.- Pulse width modulation and current control for dc drives.