Department of Electrical and Elctronics Engineering

15E0YH

Bannari Amman Inst. of

Tech. | Regulation 2015

INDUSTRIAL DRIVES AND CONTROL

3003

Course Objectives
To study the industrial control methods of AC and DC drives
To Understand the theory and applications of Industrial AC and DC drive systems
To analyze the operation of Artificial-Intelligence Based Drive
Program Outcome (POs)
c) An ability to design solutions for complex engineering problems and design system components
or processes that meet the specified needs with appropriate consideration for the public health
and safety, cultural, societal and environmental considerations.
e)

An ability to create, select, and apply appropriate techniques, resources, and modern engineering
tools including prediction and modeling to complex engineering activities with an understanding
of the limitations

Course Outcomes (COs)

The student will be able to
Analyse operation and different control techniques of industrial AC/DC Drives
Acquire knowledge on Artificial-Intelligence Techniques applied for Industrial drives
Select an appropriate motor for a given industrial application
Unit I
Introduction to Motor Control
Motors - Load system Dynamics, load torque, - Speed control and multi quadrant operation Braking of
series and separately excited DC motor, speed torque characteristics of induction motor and DC Motors Control strategies for AC and DC drives.

9 hours

Unit II
Induction motor drives
Variable frequency operation of 3-phase inductions motor Drive -Scalar control - Principle of vector or
field oriented control - Direct and Indirect vector control- Constant torque operations- Case study: FPGA
based Industrial control of induction motor

9 hours

Unit III
DC Motor Drives
Starting, Braking and Speed Control- Open and Closed loop control- Transient analysis of separately
excited motor with armature and field control, Chopper Control DC drives, Case study: ARM processor
based industrial DC drive system, PLC based industrial DC drive system.

9 hours

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Unit IV
Synchronous Motor Drives
Principles of synchronous motor control,-Adjustable frequency control -Voltage Source Inverter Drive with
open loop control, Self controlled Synchronous motor with electronic commutation and load commutated
thyristor inverter- Principle of Vector control. Case study: DSP processor based Synchronous Motor drives.
9 hours
Unit V
Artificial-Intelligence Based Drives and Applications
AI-Based Techniques - Applications in Electrical Machines and Drives - Neural-Network Based Drives
-Commercial AI based Drives -Fuzzy Logic Concept- Applications of Fuzzy Logic to Electric Drives Selection of drives -Steel rolling mills, Paper mills, Lifts and Cranes, Sugar mills

.9 hours

Unit VI
Neuro-fuzzy based control of DC drives, Design of AC drives using Brain Emotional Learning Based
Intelligent Controller, Varialbe frequency control of multiple synchronous motor drives

Total: 45 Hours
References
1.

Bimal K Bose, "Power Electronics and Variable Frequency Drives - Technology and
Application", IEEE Press, 1997.
Gopal K Dubey, Fundamentals of Electric Drives, Narosa Publishing House, New Delhi, 2005.
Peter Vas, "Vector Control of AC Machines", Oxford University Press, 1990.
Ned Mohan, Advanced Electric Drives: Analysis, Control and Modeling using Simulink, John
Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2001
Peter Vas, Artificial-Intelligence-based Electrical Machines and Drives Oxford
University Press, 1999.

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ASSESSMENT PATTERN
Unit
No
I
II
III
IV
V

Remember
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1
1
2
1
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2
2
1
1
2

F - Factual;

Understand
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1
1

12
2
2
6
12

2
1

C-Conceptual;

Apply
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1
12
1
6
1

Analyze
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1
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2
P-Procedural;

Evaluate
M

Create
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12
2
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M-Meta cognitive

1
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Total
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20
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20
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Remember
1. What are the Typical elements of an Electric Drive
2. What is a load diagram?
3. What are the types drive systems?
4. Define dynamics of motor.
5. List the different ways of speed control in dc motors?
6. List the control strategies of DC drives
7. What are the different types of electric braking?
8. List the control strategies of AC drives.
9. Select suitable motor for paper mill drive.
10. Define scalar control
11. Define vector control
12. What is mean by fuzzy logic?
13. What is mean by neural networks?
14. What is the principle of synchronous motor?
15. What is meant by solid state speed control?
16. What is meant by DC Chopper?
17. What is meant by duty cycle?
18. What are the different types of Chopper?
19. What is the function of freewheeling diode?
20. List the different methods of speed control of three phase induction motor.
21. What is mean by load commutation?
Understand
1. Explain the functional elements of Electric drive system
2. Discuss any one method of electrical braking of DC Machines.
3. Explain the Speed-Torque characteristics of three phase induction motor with neat diagrams.
4. Explain about the speed-torque characteristics of a DC Shunt Motor with suitable graph and
equations.
5. Describe the working of chopper control of DC Motors.
6. Explain the multi quadrant operation of drives.
7. Illustrate the operation of Direct and Indirect vector control of induction motor
8. Describe the working of FPGA based Industrial control of induction motor
9. Discuss about the Constant torque operations of induction motor
10. Explain the Chopper Control of DC drives
11. Describe the working of armature and field control of DC motor.
12. Discuss about different Braking methods of DC drives
13. Explain the Voltage Source Inverter Drive with open loop control of synchronous motor.
14. Describe the operation of Self controlled Synchronous motor with electronic commutation and
load commutated thyristor inverter
15. Explain the vector control of Synchronous motor drive.
16. Describe the working of Neural-Network Based induction motor speed control.
17. Draw the block diagram and explain the working of fuzzy logic based DC drive.
18. Explain different starting methods of DC drives.
Apply
1.

A 400 V, 750 r.p.m 70 A dc shunt motor has an armature of 0.3 ohm. When running under rated
conditions, the motor is to be braked by plugging with armature current limited to 90A.what external
resistance should be connected in series with the armature? Calculate the initial braking torque and its
value when the speed has fallen to 300 rpm. Neglect saturation.

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2.

A starter required for a 220V shunt motor. The maximum allowable current is 55 A and the minimum
current is about 35 A. Find the number of starter resistance required and the resistance of each
section. The armature resistance of the motor is 0.4 ohm.

3.

A three phase delta connected cage type induction motor when connected directly to 400 V, 50 HZ
supply takes a starting current of 100 A in each stator phase. Calculate (i).line current on direct on line
starting.(ii).line and phase starting currents for star-delta starting.(iii).line and phase starting currents
for a 70% tapping on autotransformer starting.

4.

Choose and justify the proper motor for the following applications: steel rolling mills, paper mills,
lifts, cranes and sugar mills.

5.

Speed of 200V series motor is 800 RPM and takes 60 A. If 1/3 of the field turns are cut out, find out
the speed, assuming torque to remain constant. Armature resistance is 0.2 ohms and field winding
resistance is 0.21 ohms.

6.

A 200 V, 10.5 A, 2000 rpm shunt motor has the armature and field resistance of 0.50 and 400
respectively. Its drives a load whose torque is constant at rated motor torque. Calculate the motor
speed if the source voltage drops to 175 V.

7.

A 230V, DC shunt motor, takes an armature current at 3.33A at rated voltage and at a no load speed of
1000RPM. The resistances of the armature circuit and field circuit are 0.3 and 160 respectively.
The line current at full load and rated voltage is 40A. Calculate, at full load, the speed and the
developed torque in case the armature reaction weakens the no load flux by 4%.

8.

Select and justify the proper artificial intelligence based control for AC and DC drives.

9.

3300V,3 phase synchronous motor running at 1500 rpm has its excitation kept constant corresponding
to no-load terminal voltage of 3000V. Determine the power input, power factor and torque developed
for an armature current of 250A if the synchronous reactance is 5 per phase and armature resistance
is neglected. (16)

10. A synchronous motor having 40% reactance and negligible resistance is to be operated at rated
voltage at UPF,0.8pf lag,0.6pf lag, 0. 8pf lead and 0.6pf lead. What are the values of induced emf.
11. A 3300V,10 pole ,50HZ three phase star connected induction motor has slip ring rotor resistance per
phase =0.015 ohm and standstill reactance per phase =0.25 ohm .If the motor runs at 2.5 percent slip
on full load ,find.
i.
Speed of the motor
ii. Speed at which the torque will be maximum
iii. The ratio of maximum torque to full load torque
Analyze
1. Compare AC and DC drives
2. Classify the Control strategies of AC and DC drives
3. Analyze the dynamics of motor control.
4. Compare direct and indirect vector control
5. How the variable frequency control is adopted for Induction motor?
6. Identify the specialty of fuzzy based control.
7. Identify the specialty of neural network based control.
8. Compare electronic commutation and load commutated thyristor inverter for synchronous motor.
9. Examine the effectiveness of the vector controlled synchronous motor drive.
10. Differentiate the fuzzy and neural network based drives.

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Evaluate
1. Interpret the Speed torque characteristics of Induction motor and DC shunt motor for pumping
system
2. Defend , how the vector control is better than the scalar control
3. Evaluate the performance of FPGA based induction motor speed control
4. Evaluate the performance of VSI fed synchronous motor drive.
5. Examine the performance of vector controlled Induction motor drive.
6. Judge the effectiveness of Fuzzy based control of DC drives
7. Judge the performance of DSP processor based Synchronous Motor drives.
8. Evaluate the performance of PLC based industrial DC drive system.
9. Interpret the importance of fuzzy and neural network based AC and DC drives.
Create
1.
Design PLC based closed loop DC drive system.
2.
Modify the existing ARM processor based industrial DC drive system with DSP.
3.
Design DSP processor based speed control of Synchronous Motor drive system