Examines fundamental electrical and mechanical laws for derivation of dynamic models of electrical machines, develops simplifying transformations for machine variables; power electronics for motor control; drive systems and basic control schemes; nonlinear control as applied to electrical machines, including feedback linearization and averaging techniques. Typical electromechanical applications in actuators, robotics, and variable speed drive systems.
 
• Advanced electromechanics: analysis of electrical machines, electrostatic machines, electromechanical sensors, harmonic effects
• Examples of machines and their dynamic models: equations of dc machines, permanent magnet modeling, synchronous motors, Park's transformation, induction motors, general rotating transformations
• Models and circuits for electrical drives: drive system models for electrical and mechanical terminals, power electronics for control of electrical machines, drive control objectives, dynamic examples, ac motor control methods including field-oriented control
• Applied nonlinear system methods for drives: periodic system transformations, averaging theory, time-scale separation, variable-structure control applications, feedback linearization
 

Notes and current papers.

ECE 333 and ECE 415 or consent of instructor.

1 unit.