Mar 28, 2024  
2019-2021 Graduate Catalog 
    
2019-2021 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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ECE 5630 - Electric and Hybrid Drive Systems

(4 credits)

Introduction to electric drives and their applications including mobile robots, electric vehicles, plug-in EV and hybrid EV. Brush and brushless DC, AC synchronous and induction, stepper motors, Load torque-speed-current profile, losses. Power processing units, dc-dc converters, H-bridges, 3-phase inverters. Clarke and Park transform, field oriented control, pulse width modulation and space vector modulation. Torque, speed and position control synthesis and analysis. Battery types, state-of-change models, heat issues. Regenerative braking, alternative energy. Computer simulation and visualization of principles. Formerly ECE 577. This course is cross listed with an undergraduate course. Credit cannot be received for both ECE 577 and ECE 459.

Prerequisite(s): ECE 429 or equivalent.

Course revisions made after the Graduate Catalog publication date will be posted in the Graduate Catalog Addendum.



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