High Performance Control of AC Drives with Matlab / Simulink Models WITH MATLAB/SIMULINK MODELS

A comprehensive guide to understanding AC machines with exhaustive simulation models to practice design and control

Nearly seventy percent of the electricity generated worldwide is used by electrical motors. Worldwide, huge research efforts are being made to develop commercially viable three- and multi-phase motor drive systems that are economically and technically feasible.

Focusing on the most popular AC machines used in industry - induction machine and permanent magnet synchronous machine - this book illustrates advanced control techniques and topologies in practice and recently deployed. Examples are drawn from important techniques including Vector Control, Direct Torque Control, Nonlinear Control, Predictive Control, multi-phase drives and multilevel inverters.

Key features include:
* systematic coverage of the advanced concepts of AC motor drives with and without output filter;
* discussion on the modelling, analysis and control of three- and multi-phase AC machine drives, including the recently developed multi-phase-phase drive system and double fed induction machine;
* description of model predictive control applied to power converters and AC drives, illustrated together with their simulation models;
* end-of-chapter questions, with answers and PowerPoint slides available on the companion website www.wiley.com/go/aburub_control

This book integrates a diverse range of topics into one useful volume, including most the latest developments. It provides an effective guideline for students and professionals on many vital electric drives aspects. It is an advanced textbook for final year undergraduate and graduate students, and researchers in power electronics, electric drives and motor control. It is also a handy tool for specialists and practicing engineers wanting to develop and verify their own algorithms and techniques.

This book will provide an initial guideline to students and professionals. It focuses on the advanced control of AC machines and will keep the readers abreast with the latest technology. The special features of the book are exhaustive simulation models based on Matlab/Simulink. Matlab/Simulink is nowadays the integral part of the taught courses at undergraduate and postgraduate programme and also extensively used in industries. Thus the simulation models will provide a handy tool to students, practising engineers and researchers, to verify the algorithms, techniques and models. Once familiar with the models presented in the book the students and practising engineers can develop and verify their own algorithms and techniques. This book presents a new modelling approach to voltage source inverter, based on most simple signal flow graph, in addition to the space vector model. The effect of adding output LC filter at the inverter side on the motor drive is discussed. The book opens with an introduction to high performance drives, then the first chapter covers mathematical and simulation models of power electronic AC-DC converter and AC machines. The second chapter covers pulse width modulation of power electronic DC-AC converter. Field orientated control of AC machines and direct torque control of AC machines are explored next, before a chapter on feedback linearization control of induction machines. The predictive control of power converters and AC drives are covered, before sensorless control of AC machines is taken up in appreciable depth. Advances in Multi-phase (more than three-phase) drives are presented in Chapter 9. The final chapter covers selected problems of drive systems with inverter output filter.

A comprehensive guide to understanding AC machines with exhaustive simulation models to practice design and control Nearly seventy percent of the electricity generated worldwide is used by electrical motors. Worldwide, huge research efforts are being made to develop commercially viable three- and multi-phase motor drive systems that are economically and technically feasible. Focusing on the most popular AC machines used in industry induction machine and permanent magnet synchronous machine this book illustrates advanced control techniques and topologies in practice and recently deployed. Examples are drawn from important techniques including Vector Control, Direct Torque Control, Nonlinear Control, Predictive Control, multi-phase drives and multilevel inverters. Key features include: systematic coverage of the advanced concepts of AC motor drives with and without output filter; discussion on the modelling, analysis and control of three- and multi-phase AC machine drives, including the recently developed multi-phase-phase drive system and double fed induction machine; description of model predictive control applied to power converters and AC drives, illustrated together with their simulation models; end-of-chapter questions, with answers and PowerPoint slides available on the companion website www.wiley.com/go/aburub_control This book integrates a diverse range of topics into one useful volume, including most the latest developments. It provides an effective guideline for students and professionals on many vital electric drives aspects. It is an advanced textbook for final year undergraduate and graduate students, and researchers in power electronics, electric drives and motor control. It is also a handy tool for specialists and practicing engineers wanting to develop and verify their own algorithms and techniques.