Basic Elements – Types of Electric Drives – factors influencing the choice of electrical drives – heating and cooling curves – power rating - classes of duty

Review of DC motor and Induction motor, Constructional details, principle of operation and mechanical characteristics of synchronous motor, universal motor, servo motor, stepper motor and reluctance motor

Armature and flux control method of D.C shunt motor, starting methods of D.C. motor and three phase induction motor–Electrical braking and its types.

Review of Power devices, Single phase half and full controlled rectifier fed DC drives, Two and four quadrant operation of chopper fed DC drives – Digital control DC motor drive

Single phase voltage regulator fed AC drive, Three phase voltage / frequency controlled AC drive - slip power recovery schemes using inverters – Digital control of induction motor, reluctance motor and stepper motor drives