The Drive Environment:
- Robotic and machine tool applications
- Introduction to position and speed control systems, dynamics and load characteristics, power transmission, environmental factors
- Determination of speed and torque requirements, motion profiles, installation considerations.
Devices:
- Review of diodes, thyristors, bipolar junction transistors, MOSFETs, IGBTs
- Basic characteristics of all devices, drive requirements
- Thermal management, protection.
Converters:
- Two and six pulse circuits
- Derivation of operating equations
- Overlap and its effect on output waveforms.
Inverters:
- Three-phase inverters, dc link inverter
- Forced-commutation thyristor circuits.
Specification of Drive Systems:
- Mechanical transmission elements, gears, leadscrews, belts etc.
- Sizing algorithms.
Position and Velocity Transducers:
- Specifications, analogue versus digital, review of available linear and rotary systems.
Servo Drive Systems:
- Consideration of specific drives and their operating characteristics including brushed d.c. series motor drives, brushless d.c. motor drives, and vector-controlled a.c. motor drives.
Controllers:
- Integration into the drive package, networking.
Power Supplies:
- Linear and switched mode power supplies
- Practical characteristics and analysis of step-up and step-down switched mode power supplies.