Electromechanical Devices and Systems

Course title: Electromechanical Devices and Systems

Code: FEIT02Z016

Number of credits (ECTS): 6

Weekly number of classes: 3+1+1+0

Prerequisite for enrollment of the subject: Electrical Engineering 1 and Electrical Engineering 2

Course goals/Competences: This course represents an introduction to the study for electromechanical devices (electrical machines) and their systems for supply and control with special emphasis on practical laboratory analysis. Students will gain basic, as well as deepened knowledge for specifications, structure and working principles of most of the electromechanical devices, types of supply and control using power converters and their application. Student will be able to analyze numerous electromechanical devices (electrical machines), as well as their implementation in novel industrial automated processes and commercial premises.

Total available number of classes: 180

Curriculum: Principles of electromechanical energy conversion. Types of DC motors, structure and working principles; Characteristics of DC motors; Novel types of supply and speed control, as well as starting and braking using power converters; Types of induction motors, structure and working principles; Characteristics of induction motors; Novel techniques for supply and speed control, as well as starting and braking using inverters; Types of synchronous motors, structure and working principles; Characteristics of synchronous motors (with electromagnetic DC excitation and permanent magnet excitation); Novel techniques for speed regulation, starting and breaking using inverters; Types of stepper motors, structure, working principles, characteristics and speed control; Control circuits for electric motors and their elements.

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