Power Electronics and Motor Drives
Advances and Trends

Receive the same level of instruction as attending an IEEE course without leaving your office or home!

Bimal K. Bose (Author)

9780120884056, Elsevier Science

Hardback, published 13 September 2006

934 pages, Approx. 750 illustrations
23.5 x 19 x 4.5 cm, 2.12 kg

Power electronics is an area of extremely important and rapidly changing technology. Technological advancements in the area contribute to performance improvement and cost reduction, with applications proliferating in industrial, commercial, residential, military and aerospace environments. This book is meant to help engineers operating in all these areas to stay up-to-date on the most recent advances in the field, as well as to be a vehicle for clarifying increasingly complex theories and mathematics. This book will be a cost-effective and convenient way for engineers to get up-to-speed on the latest trends in power electronics.


The reader will obtain the same level of informative instruction as they would if attending an IEEE course or a training session, but without ever leaving the office or living room! The author is in an excellent position to offer this instruction as he teaches many such courses.

Introduction
Power Semiconductor Devices
Phase-Controlled Converters and Cycloconverters
Voltage-Fed Converters and PWM Techniques
Current-Fed Converters
AC Machined for Drives
Induction Motor Drives-Control and Estimation
Synchronus Motor Drives-Control and Estimation
Microprocessor/DSP Priciples and Applications
Fuzzy Logic Pronciples and Applications
Neural Network Principles and Applications

Subject Areas: Electronic devices & materials [TJFD], Electrical engineering [THR]