Power Electronics And Motor Drives: Advances and Trends

Description

Power electronics is an area of extremely important and rapidly changing technology. Technological advancements in the area contribute to performance improvement and cost reduction, with applications proliferating in industrial, commercial, residential, military and aerospace environments. This book is meant to help engineers operating in all these areas to stay up-to-date on the most recent advances in the field, as well as to be a vehicle for clarifying increasingly complex theories and mathematics. This book will be a cost-effective and convenient way for engineers to get up-to-speed on the latest trends in power electronics. BENEFIT TO THE READER: The reader will obtain the same level of informative instruction as they would if attending an IEEE course or a training session, but without ever leaving the office or living room! The author is in an excellent position to offer this instruction, as he teaches many such courses, and is also the author of a key college textbook in the area with Prentice Hall.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction [10 pages] Chapter 2: Power Semiconductor Devices [30 pages] Chapter 3: Phase-Controlled Converters and Cycloconverters [50 pages] Chapter 4: Voltage-Fed Converters and PWM Techniques [70 pages] Chapter 5: Current-Fed Converters [40 pages] Chapter 6: AC Machines for Drives [40 pages] Chapter 7: Induction Motor Drives – Control and Estimation [80 pages] Chapter 8: Synchronous Motor Drives – Control and Estimation [80 pages] Chapter 9: Microprocessor/DSP Principles and Applications [50 pasges] Chapter 10: Fuzzy Logic Principles and Applications [60 pages] Chapter 11: Neural Network Principles and Applications [80 pages] Chapter 12: Discussion