Direct Eigen Control for Induction Machines and Synchronous Motors

Acknowledgements

I would like to make a point of sincerely thanking all the individuals and organizations who made this work possible.

I owe a great deal to Raymond Bardot and especially to Prof. Dr Ing. Jean-Luc Thomas, for the endless time and attention given to the second reading of this work, and for corrections that they suggested, as well as to Dr Widad Bouamama for her masterly diagonalization of the input matrix in discrete-time state-space equations.

Particular thanks go to Philippe Bernard, a virtuoso of real-time implementation of ­microseconds-consuming algorithms. Without his unwavering confidence in the possibility of gaining still more nanoseconds during software execution, the hope and the energy deployed which led us to final algorithms that are usable in real-time, would have been in vain.

This book could never have become reality without the help and support of many friends and colleagues. I want to thank Alstom Transport for their backup during each year of doubt and research towards practical and powerful solutions for controlling traction motors, during a period when the organization of the company was in constant evolution. I am also very grateful to laboratories and teams of Alcatel Alsthom Research, LEEI of ENSEEIHT-INPT in Toulouse, CRAN of ENSEM-INPL in Nancy, and LEG of ENSIEG-INPG in Grenoble for their participation.

I want to thank professors Bernard de Fornel, Claude Iung and Daniel Roye, for the leads and progress in motor control research which they ...