All lecture content sans the assignment(s) and important announcmenets will be hosted on the lectures Github Page which you can find it here.
Welcome to the lecture materials for use in B.Sc - Drive Technology where our focus will be on the topics of:
- Fundamentals on poly-phase systems,
- Magnetic Circuits,
- Transformers,
- How Energy is Converted
- DC Drives,
- Induction Drives,
- Synchronous Drives,
- Solid-state Commutation Drives.
The details of the lecture are given below.
| DESCRIPTION | VALUE |
|---|---|
| Program Name | Bachelor's program "Mechatronics Design and Innovation" |
| Module Name | Antriebstechnik |
| Semester | 5 |
| Room | Lecture Room |
| Assessment(s) | Individual Assignment (40 %) Final Exam (60 %) |
| Lecturer | Daniel McGuiness |
| Software | Python |
| Hardware | - |
| SWS Total | 2 |
| Total Units | 30 |
| ECTS | 5 |
| Lecture Type | ILV |
There will be one (1) assignment and one (1) exam for this course.
The grade breakdown is as follows:
| DEFINITION | GRADE (%) |
|---|---|
| Individual Assignment | 40 |
| Final Exam | 60 |
| Sum | 100 |
An individual assignment will be given to you to work on. This assignment will consist of questions pertaining to concepts and applications of electric drives.
The grade breakdown is as follows:
| DEFINITION | GRADE (%) |
|---|---|
| Report Style | 15 |
| Q1 - Magnetic Materials | 15 |
| Q3 - 3-Phase Induction Drives | 15 |
| Q4 - Single Phase Transfomer | 15 |
| Q5 - Single Phase Transfomer | 15 |
| Q6 - DC Drives | 10 |
| Correct use of symbols and Nomenclature | 10 |
| Sum | 100 |
NOTE: The assignment is individual and is not meant to be worked as a group.
The final exam will focus on all the content taught in the lecture. The exam will have three (3) questions and you will have 90 mins to solve them. You are allowed to take a calculator but a formula sheet will not be allowed.
As it currently is, the lecture covers topic a general breath of electrical machines from their conceptual understanding to industrical practices of production, material understanding, theoretical modelling.
The structure of the lecture is shown below.
| ORDER | TOPIC | DESCRIPTION | SESSION |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction | Discussion of the lecture structure and what will be covered | 1 |
| 2 | Return to Fundamentals | A quick view on mathematical necessity for poly-phase circuit analysis | 1 |
| 3 | Magnetic Circuits and Materials | Magnetic Materials and Inductance | 1 |
| 4 | Transfomer | Construction, Analysis and operation | 2 |
| 5 | Electromechanical Energy Conversion | Energy co-energy, flux-linkage, etc. | 2-3 |
| 6 | Rotating Magnetic Fields | MMF, waveforms, space harmonics | 3 |
| 7 | DC Drives | Construction, operation, connection types | 4 |
| 8 | Polyphase Induction Drives | Construction, operation, concepts, parameter analysis | 4-5 |
| 9 | Single-phase Induction Drives | Construction, operation, starting methods | 5-6 |
| 10 | Linear Induction Drives | Construction, operation, concepts, applications | 6 |
| 11 | Synchronous Drives | Construction, rotor types, characteristics, salient design | 6-7 |
| 12 | Solid-state Commutation Drives | Construction, types, control | 7 |
The Code supplement is a Github webpage dedicated to hosting all the relevant code used in the lecture as it is not feasible to fit all the content of the code to the slides and it is easier to share this way.
Visit the Code Supplement Website
The following materials are recommend reading for the coure but by no means are they mandatory.
| TITLE | AUTHOR | PUBLISHER |
|---|---|---|
| Advanced electric drives: analysis control and modeling using MATLAB/Simulink | Mohan, Ned | John Wiley & Sons (2014) |
| Analysis of electric machinery and drive systems | Krause, Paul C. et. al. | Vol. 2 IEEE Press (2002) |
| Design of rotating electrical machines | Pyrhonen Juha et. al | John Wiley & Sons 2013 |
| Electric Machinery Fundamentals (5th Edition) | Stephen J. Chapman. | McGraw Hill (2012) |
| Electric Motors and Drives: Fundamentals Types and Applications | Hughes A. et. al. | Newnes 2019 |
| Electrical Machines and Drives: Fundamentals and Advanced Modelling | Melkebeek A. | Springer 2018 |
| Electrical machines, drives, and power systems | Wildi T. | Pearson Education 2006 |
| Fundamentals of Electrical Drives | Veltman A. et. al. | Springer 2007 |
For academic references regarding the industrial applications and the current state of the art, Elsevier and IEEE Journals are always a great place to look for.
– DTMc