The accuracy of rotor position estimation in the (several kHz), and its amplitude cannot be changed as it is conventional signal injection based sensorless control of determined by the DC-link voltage and the PWM duty cycle, permanent magnet brushless AC drives depends on the load the amplitude of high frequency current will be too small for current. This paper proposes an improved method, whic...

In this paper we propose a suitable reference wave for Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) AC Drives. Staircase reference waves whose levels are calculated to eliminate certain harmonics are studied and a certain staircase reference waveform with L levels is constructed. When L is made very large in limit, this staircase waveform approaches a continuous one which is called Quasine (Quasi + Sine). This...

This paper deals with a comprehensive survey on the topic of AC/DC & DC/DC converters for DC Motor Drives. A substantial number of different AC/DC and DC/DC topologies appropriate for DC motor drives are presented. This critical literature review brings out merits, demerits, and limitations besides giving the basic operating principles of various topologies. Keywords—controlled-rectifiers, chop...

This paper deals with the application of a new neuron, the TLS EXIN neuron, to AC induction motor drives. In particular, it addresses two important subjects of AC induction motor drives: the on-line estimation of the electrical parameters of the machine and the speed estimation in sensorless drives. On this basis, this work summarizes the parameter estimation and sensorless techniques already d...

This contribution wants to show some recent applications of neural networks in the field of power electronics, with particular emphasis on the sensorless control of AC drives and examines improvements that can be attained when using linear neural networks. At first it presents some theoretical aspects of linear neural networks, particularly the TLS EXIN neuron. Then it describes some original a...

Coordinated apical constriction (AC) in epithelial sheets drives tissue invagination [1, 2] and is required for diverse morphogenetic movements such as gastrulation [3], neurulation [4, 5], and organogenesis [6]. We showed previously that actomyosin contractility drives AC in Xenopus laevis bottle cells [7]; however, it remained unclear whether it does so in concert with other processes. Here w...

An important factor in industrial progress during the past five decades has been the increasing sophistication of factory automation which has improved productivity manyfold. Manufacturing lines typically involve a variety of variable speed motor drives which serve to power conveyor belts, robot arms, overhead cranes, steel process lines, paper mills, and plastic and fiber processing lines to n...

16 Management Summary One of the driving forces behind the industrial revolution was the invention—more than a century ago—of the electric motor. Its widespread use for all kinds of mechanical motion has made life simpler and has ultimately aided the advancement of humankind. And the advent of the inverter that facilitated speed and torque control of AC motors has propelled the use of electric ...

Dielectric nonlinear response of (PbMg1/3Nb2/3O3)0.9(PbTiO3)0.1 (0.9PMN0.1PT) relaxor ceramics was investigated under different ac drive voltages. It was observed that: (i) the dielectric permittivity is independent on ac field amplitude at high temperatures; (ii) with increasing ac drive, the permittivity maximum increases, and the temperature of the maximum shifts to lower temperature; (iii) ...