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Introduction to Electric Drives
Dynamics of Electric Drives, Four Quadrant Operation, Equivalent Drive Parameters
Equivalent Drive Parameters, Friction Components, Nature of Load Torque
Steady State Stability, Load Equalization
Load Equalization, Characteristics of DC Motor

Speed Torque Characteristics of Separately Excited DC Motor and Series DC Motor
Field Control of Series Motor, Motoring and Braking of Separately Excited and Series DC motors
Speed Control of Separately Excited DC Motor Using Controlled Rectifiers
Analysis of Single Phase Full Controlled Converter-fed Separately Excited DC Motor
Speed Torque Characteristics of Full Controlled Converter-fed Separately Excited DC Motor, Analysis of Single Phase Half Controlled Converter-fed Separately Excited DC Motor

Analysis of Single Phase Half Controlled Converter-fed Separately Excited DC Motor.
Three Phase Full Controlled Converter-fed Separately Excited DC Motor, Multi-quadrant Operation of DC Motor
Dual Converter-fed DC Motor, Multi-quadrant Operation Using Field Current Reversal
DC Chopper-fed Separately Excited DC Motor for Motoring and Braking
Two-quadrant DC Chopper, Four-quadrant DC Chopper

Dynamic Braking of DC Motor by Chopper Controlled Resistor, Closed-loop Operation of DC Drives, Induction Motor Drives
Speed Torque Characteristics of Induction Motor, Operation of Induction Motor from Non-sinusoidal Supply
Operation of Induction Motor from Non-sinusoidal Supply
Stator Current of Induction Motor with Non-sinusoidal Supply, Operation of Induction Motor with Unbalanced Voltage Supply
Single Phasing of Induction Motor, Braking of Induction Motor

Dynamic braking of induction motor, AC dynamic braking, DC dynamic braking
Analysis of DC dynamic braking of induction motor
Self-excited dynamic braking of induction motor, Speed control of induction motor using stator voltage regulator, Variable voltage variable frequency control
Variable voltage variable frequency control of induction motor, Open loop V/F control
Slip speed control of induction motor, Constant Volt/Hz control with slip speed regulation

Closed-loop Volt/Hz control of induction motor with slip speed regulation, Multi-quadrant operation of induction motor drive
Current Source Inverter (CSI) fed induction motor drive
Closed-loop operation of current source inverter (CSI) fed induction motor drive, Control of slip ring induction motor - Static rotor resistance control
Closed-loop operation of slip ring induction motor with static rotor resistance control, Slip power recovery in slip ring induction motor - Static Kramer drive
Static Kramer drive and its closed-loop control, Introduction to synchronous motor

Various types of synchronous motors, Equivalent circuit and phasor diagram of cylindrical synchronous motor, Speed-torque characteristics of cylindrical synchronous motor
Phasor diagram of salient pole synchronous motor, Expression of power and torque for a salient pole synchronous motor, Synchronous reluctance motor, Open-loop V/f control of synchronous motor
Open-loop V/f control, Torque-speed characteristics, Self controlled synchronous motor drive employing load commutated thyristor inverter
Detailed analysis of commutation of load commutated thyrisor inverter, Derivation of overlap angle and margin angle, Closed-loop speed control scheme for load commutated inverter-fed synchronous motor drive
Low cost brushless DC motor (BLDCM), Trapezoidal permanent magnet AC motor

Trapezoidal permanent magnet AC motor, Derivation of power and torque, Closed-loop control of trapezoidal BLDC motor, Introduction to switched reluctance motor
Construction and operating principle of switched reluctance motor
Current/ voltage control for switched reluctance motor, operating modes of switched reluctance motor, Introduction to traction drives
Current collector for mainline trains, Nature of traction load, Duty cycle of traction drives
Duty cycle of traction drives, Distance between two stops, Calculation of total tractive effort and drive rating