Electric Motors and Drives: Fundamentals, Types and Applications, Fifth
Edition is intended primarily for non-specialist users or students of
electric motors and drives, but many researchers and specialist
industrialists have also acknowledged its value in providing a clear
understanding of the fundamentals. It bridges the gap between specialist
textbooks (too analytical for the average user) and handbooks (full of
detail but with little insight) providing an understanding of how each
motor and drive system works.
The fifth edition has been completely revised, updated and expanded. All
of the most important types of motor and drive are covered, including
d.c., induction, synchronous (including synchronous reluctance and
salient Permanent Magnet), switched reluctance, and stepping. There has
been significant innovation in this area since the fourth edition,
particularly in the automotive, aircraft and industrial sectors, with
novel motor topologies emerging, including hybrid designs that combine
permanent magnet and reluctance effects. We now include a physical basis
for understanding and quantifying torque production in these machines,
and this leads to simple pictures that illuminate the control conditions
required to optimise torque. The key converter topologies have been
brought together, and the treatment of inverter switching strategies
expanded.
A new chapter is devoted to the treatment of Field Oriented control,
reflecting its increasing importance for all a.c. motor drives. A unique
physically-based approach is adopted which builds naturally on the
understanding of motor behaviour developed earlier in the book: the
largely non-mathematical treatment dispels much of the mystique
surrounding what is often regarded as a difficult topic.
