Advanced Electric Drives: Analysis, Control, and Modeling Using MATLAB/Simulink

Preface

When I wrote the first version of this textbook in 2001, my opening paragraph was as follows:

Why write a textbook for a course that has pretty much disappeared from the curriculum at many universities? The only possible answer is in hopes of reviving it (as we have been able to do at the University of Minnesota) because of enormous future opportunities that await us including biomedical applications such as heart pumps, harnessing of renewable energy resources such as wind, factory automation using robotics, and clean transportation in the form of hybrid-electric vehicles.

Here we are, more than a decade later, and unfortunately the situation is no different. It is hoped that the conditions would have changed when the time comes for the next revision of this book in a few years from now.

This textbook follows the treatment of electric machines and drives in my earlier textbook, Electric Machines and Drives: A First Course, published by Wiley (http://www.wiley.com/college/mohan).

My attempt in this book is to present the analysis, control, and modeling of electric machines as simply and concisely as possible, such that it can easily be covered in one semester graduate-level course. To do so, I have chosen a two-step approach: first, provide a “physical” picture without resorting to mathematical transformations for easy visualization, and then confirm this physics-based analysis mathematically.

The “physical” picture mentioned above needs elaboration. Most research literature ...