Electrical Drives: Electrical Drives, Advantages of Electrical Drives. Parts of Electrical Drives, Choice of Electrical Drives, Status of DC and AC Drives.

Dynamics of Electrical Drives: Fundamental Torque Equations, Speed Torque Conventions and Multi-quadrant Operation. Equivalent values of Drive parameters, Components of Load Torques, Nature and Classification of Load Torques, Calculation of Time and Energy Loss in Transient Operations, Steady State Stability, Load Equalization.

Control Electrical Drives: Modes of Operation, Speed Control and Drive Classifications, Closed loop Control of Drives. Phase locked Loop control (PLL)

Direct Current Motor Drives: Controlled Rectifier Fed DC Drives, Single Phase Fully Controlled Rectifier Control of DC Separately Excited Motor, Single Phase Half Controlled Rectifier Control of DC Separately Excited Motor, Three Phase Fully Controlled Rectifier Control of DC Separately Excited Motor, Three Phase Half Controlled Rectifier Control of DC Separately Excited Motor, Multi-quadrant Operation of DC Separately Excited Motor Fed Form Fully Controlled Rectifier, Rectifier Control of DC Series Motor, Supply Harmonics, Power Factor and Ripple in Motor Current, Chopper Control of Separately Excited DC Motor, Chopper Control of Series Motor.

Induction Motor Drives: Analysis and Performance of Three Phase Induction Motors, Operation with Unbalanced Source Voltage and Single Phasing, Operation with Unbalanced Rotor Impedances, Analysis of Induction Motor Fed From Non-Sinusoidal Voltage Supply, Starting, Braking, Transient Analysis. Speed Control Techniques-Stator Voltage Control, Variable Voltage Frequency Control from Voltage Sources. Voltage Source Inverter (VSI) Control, Cycloconverter Control, Closed Loop Speed Control and Converter Rating for VSI and Cycloconverter Induction Motor Drives, Variable Frequency Control from a Current Source, Current Source inverter (CSI) Control, Comparision of VSI and CSI, current regulated voltage source inverter control, speed control of single phase induction motors.

Synchronous Motor Drives: Operation from fixed frequency supply-starting, synchronous motor variable speed drives, variable frequency control of multiple synchronous motors. Self-controlled synchronous motor drive employing load commutated thyristor inverter, Starting Large Synchronous Machines, Permanent Magnet ac (PMAC) Motor Drives, Sinusoidal PMAC Motor Drives, Brushless DC Motor Drives.

Stepper Motor Drives: Variable Reluctance, Permanent Magnet, Important Features of Stepper Motors, Torque Versus Stepping rate Characteristics, Drive Circuits for Stepper Motor.

Energy conservation in Electrical Drives: Losses in electrical drive system, Measures for energy conservation in Electrical drives, Energy efficient operation of drive, use of right rating motors, improvement of quality of supply.

Solar powered Drives: Solar powered pump drives, solar powered Electric vehicles.

Industrial Drives: Textile Mills, Steel Rolling Mills, Cranes and Hoists, Machine Tools, use of single to three phase semiconductor converters in rural applications.