Introduction to AC motor drives. Review of AC motors and AC motor drives. Salient and non-salient pole AC machines. Open/closed loop variable speed AC drives and applications. Concept of space vectors. Direct and Quadrature axes representation of AC machines. Dynamic equations of AC machines. Direct and indirect flux orientation. Implementation of indirect vector control; speed, torque and flux control. Sensorless vector drives. Self tuning techniques. Brushless DC and AC drives. Applications of motor drives.
