Engineering Books: Electric Motor Control

Electric Motor Control

Sang-Hoon Kim

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Owing to rapidly increasing energy costs and global interest in reducing carbon dioxide emissions, electric motors have recently become one of the most important prime movers that produce mechanical power. Recently, in many mechanical systems, traditional prime movers such as a hydraulic system, a steam turbine, a gas turbine, and an internal combustion engine are being rapidly replaced by electric motor drive systems, which are more efficient, controllable, and environment friendly. Currently, electric motor drive systems are playing an important role in improving convenience in many areas of our lives including home appliances, office machines, transportation, and industrial machines. The main aim of this book is to introduce practical drive techniques of electric motors for supporting stable, efficient control of such application systems, covering basic principles to high-performance motor control techniques. Nowadays, the most widely used motors are classic direct current (DC) and alternating current (AC) motors (induction motor and synchronous motor). Besides these motors, there is a brand new brushless direct current (BLDC) motor. To control these motors efficiently, we will do a comprehensive study of fundamental operating principles, driving methods of electric motors, related control theories, and power converters for driving a motor. Many people do not have the background knowledge in these areas and may need to obtain these contents from various books. Therefore, this book is designed optimally for studying these contents at once and easy learning of difficult control principles. Furthermore, this book provides simulation examples for key subjects using MATLAB/ Simulink tool and offers practical control techniques for industrial motor drive applications currently in use.