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Motor Drives

Muhammed F. Rahman    The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, AustraliaDean Patterson    University of Nebraska, Lincoln, LE, United StatesAdrian Cheok    Imagineering Institute, Nusajaya, MalaysiaRobert Betz    University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia

Abstract

The widespread proliferation of power electronics and ancillary control circuits into motor control systems in the past several decades have led to a situation where motor drives, which process about two-thirds of the world's electric power into mechanical power, are on the threshold of processing all of this power via power electronics. The days of driving motors directly from the fixed ac or dc mains via mechanical adjustments are truly over. Table ...

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