Permanent Magnet Synchronous and Brushless DC Motor Drives

Unlike most books on machine drives, this volume provides comprehensive treatment of standard and low-cost converter topologies and integrated control of the motor drive system. After an introduction to machines, power devices, inverters, and control, this book presents detailed coverage of PM synchronous machines, including modeling, implementation, control strategies, flux weakening operations, parameter sensitivity, and rotor position sensorless control. Subsequent chapters address the simulation, control, inverters topologies, and commutation torque ripple of pm brushless dc motor drives. MATLAB(R) codes are also included throughout the text where appropriate.

Author: Ramu Krishnan
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 09/01/2009
Pages: 612
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.20lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.20w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9780824753849

Review Citation(s):
Scitech Book News 12/01/2009 pg. 152

About the Author

R. Krishnan is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, USA, and the director of the Center for Rapid Transit Systems, specializing in linear and rotating motor drives. He is the author of Switched Reluctance Motor Drives (CRC Press), among other books, and his inventions have been prominently featured in radio, TV, and newspapers such as The Wall Street Journal. He has served as a consultant for 18 companies in the United States and has received best paper prize awards from the IEEE Industry Applications Society's Industrial Drives Committee and the Electric Machines Committee, and Industrial Electronics Society. An IEEE Fellow, Professor Krishnan was awarded the Mittelman Award for outstanding achievement in industrial electronics from that society. He is a founder of two companies involved in variable speed motor drives, and he is a co-founder of a linear motor drives company.