AC ELECTRIC MOTORS CONTROL ADVANCED DESIGN TECHNIQUES AND APPLICATIONS By Fouad Giri

AC ELECTRIC MOTORS CONTROL ADVANCED DESIGN TECHNIQUES AND APPLICATIONS By Fouad Giri

Contents:

Chapter 1 Introduction to AC Motor Control 

Chapter 2 Control Models for Induction Motors

Chapter 3 Control Models for Synchronous Machines

Chapter 4 State Observers for Estimation Problems in Induction Motors

Chapter 5 State Observers for Active Disturbance Rejection in Induction Motor Control

Chapter 6 Observers Design for Systems with Sampled Measurements, Application to AC Motors

Chapter 7 Experimental Evaluation of Observer Design Technique for Synchronous Motor

Chapter 8 High-Gain Observers in Robust Feedback Control of Induction Motors

Chapter 9 Adaptive Output Feedback Control of Induction Motors

Chapter 10 Nonlinear Control for Speed Regulation of Induction Motor with Optimal Energetic Efficiency

Chapter 11 Experimental Evaluation of Nonlinear Control Design Techniques for Sensorless Induction Motor

Chapter 12 Multiphase Induction Motor Control

Preface:

The last two decades have witnessed spectacular developments in the technologies of power electronics and microprocessors. Due to these developments, sophisticated power converters and digital signal processors (DSP) have become available, making possible the use of high performance AC drives in widespread applications. For this goal to be fully realized, one should get as much benefit as possible from the considerable progress made in the field of control theory. Three decades of intensive research activity has resulted in a proliferation of nonlinear control methods, published in hundreds of journal and conference papers. Of course, not all nonlinear control methods apply to AC motors, but a significant fraction does. The aim of this monograph is to make available to the scientific community a resource reflecting the wide variety of control problems posed by AC motors and drawing up the state of the art of the corresponding control methods for design, analysis, and implementation. In this respect, special focus is made on the topics of sensorless nonlinear observers, adaptive and robust nonlinear controllers, output-feedback controllers, fault detection and isolation algorithms, and fault-tolerant controllers. The most significant developments in these topics, and their applications to AC motor control, are described in this book, as well as some new research topics. Most of the concepts and methods are presented by their own inventors. The book is intended for a wide variety of readers, including academia and industry researchers, graduate students and their professors, engineers, and practitioners. Although it includes many aspects of the theory, it is nonetheless beneficial to practitioners who will be able to use the methods without necessarily understanding every single detail of the theory. It will also be useful for newcomers to research in the field of AC motor control. For students and newcomers, the main prerequisites are undergraduate courses on linear and nonlinear system control, on electric machines, and on power electronics. Each chapter includes an introduction and an individual reference list, and the different chapters are written in a way that makes them readable independently from each other.