Proposed Post- Graduate curriculum of for first- year of two year course

Specialization: POWER ELECTRONICS

First semester:

Subjects:

1. MPE-101 Modern Power Converters

2. MPE-102 Physics of power semiconductor Devices
3. MPE-103 Advanced Control Engineering
4. MPE-104 Elective-I
5. MPE-105 Elective-II
6. MPE-106 Power Electronics laboratory-I
7. MPE-107 Simulation lab using MATLAB & PSPICE

Second semester:

Subjects:

1. MPE-201 Variable Speed DC Drives

2. MPE-202 Variable Speed AC Drives
3. MPE-203 Control of Power Electronics System
4. MPE-204 Elective-III
5. MPE-205 Elective-IV
6. MPE-106 Power Electronics Laboratory-II
7. MPE-107 Control Laboratory

Elective- I: Advanced Microprocessor

Elective-II: Digital Signal Processing
Elective-III: Soft Computing Techniques for Design
Elective-IV: Nonlinear Dynamical systems

Second year projects leading to M-Tech degree

 MODERN POWER CONVERTERS

MPE-101 4 Hrs./week

Eight questions to be set & five questions to be answered.

Introduction to switched mode power converters, generalized comparison between

switched mode and linear DC regulator, operation and steady state performance of buck,
Boost, Buck-boost and Cuk Converters: Continuous conduction mode, discontinuous
mode and boundary between continuous and discontinuous mode of operation, o/p
voltage ripple calculation, effect of parasitic element.
DC-DC converters with Isolation: Fly back converters- other fly back converter
topologies, forward converters, The forward converter switching Transistor- Variation of
the basic forward converter, push pull converter- Push pull converter transistor-
Limitation of the push pull circuit- circuit variation of the push pull converter- the half
bridge and full bridge DC-DC converters. High frequency inductor design and
transformer design consideration, magnetic core, current transformers.

Resonant converters: Introduction, Classification: Load resonant, Resonant switch,

Resonant DC link, High frequency link integral half cycle converters: series and parallel
loaded converters in continuous and discontinuous mode of operation, Hybrid resonant
DC-DC converters, zero current switch (ZCS), zero voltage switch(ZVS), resonant
switch converter, ZCS- clamped voltage converters(ZCS-CV), resonant DC link
converters with ZVS.
Control of switched mode DC power supplies: Voltage feed forward PWM control,
current mode control, digital PWM control, isolation techniques of switching regulator
system: soft start in switching power supply designs, current limit circuits, over voltage
protection circuit. A typical monolithic PWM control circuit and their application: TL
494. Power factor control in DC-DC converters.

Electromagnetic and radio frequency interference, conducted and radiated noise, EMI
suppression, EMI reduction at source, EMI filters, EMI screening, EMI measurements
and specifications.
Power conditioners and uninterruptible Power supplies, Types of UPS- Redundant and
Non-Redundant UPS.

TEXTBOOKS
1. Mohan, Undeland, Robbins_Power Electronics: Converters, Application and
Design, John Wiley & sons, 1989
2. A.I. pressman- Switching mode power supply design-MGH, 1992
3. M.H. Rashid- Power Electronics, PHI, 2004
 Physics of Power semiconductor Devices
MPE-102 4 Hrs./week
Eight Question to be set & any five questions to be answered.

Semiconductor and p-n junction properties:

Energy level, electrons and holes in semiconductors, doping impurity and impurity levels, form of
energy bands density of states, the FERMI-DIRAC distribution functions and the densities of electrons
and holes in semi conductors, minority carrier generation, recombination and life time, carrier drift,
diffusion and continuity equation, p-n junctions, minority carrier injection and collection, junction
boundary conditions, junction current, injection efficiency, minority carrier transport and transistor
action, speed properties.
Avalanche breakdown in p-n junctions:
Analysis of Avalanche breakdown, avalanche breakdown in planar p+ -n (n+-p) junctions,
Analysis of Avalanche breakdown, avalanche breakdown in planar p+-v-n+ and p+-π-n+ junctions,
Control of variation of Alpha, transport efficiency, injection efficiency.

Theory p-n-p-n operation: physical theory, triggering mechanism, reverse and forward blocking
characteristics, spread charge layer spreading and punch through, avalanche breakdown, surface
breakdown, reverse and forward blocking current,
Forward conducting characteristics, dynamic operation, recovery time, dv/dt triggering, gate turn on,
gate turn off.

Design and fabrication of p-n-p-n devices:

p-n junction formation, life time and geometry control, heat transfer and electrical contact
consideration, mechanical stress and thermal fatigue,surface protection, the shorted emitter, bilateral
diode switch, bilateral triode switch and related structure.

Rating, specification and characteristics on p-n-p-n devices:

Electrical Characteristics, mechanism of failure, thermal resistance, heat generation calculation,
calculation of rating.

Turn off characteristics and methods:

SCR turn of criteria, significance of circuit turn off interval, SCR turn off parameters, anode turn off
methods, gate turn off.

Controllable switch devices:

Power handling capabilities, safe operation area, principle of device fabrication, Gate turn off
thyristors, theory of operation and required structural modification, GTO turn on and turn off
characteristics, snubber circuit for GTO, over current protection of GTO.
Bipolar junction transistors, switching characteristics, safe operating area, transistors snubber, Power
MOSFET, characteristics, safe operating area, snubber circuits, IGBT, switching characteristics, safe
operating area, snubber.

REFERENCES
1. Semiconductor controlled rectifier: principle and application of p-n-p-n
Devices, F.E. Gentry, F.W. Gutzwiller, Holonyak, Jr. and E.E. Von Zastrow
Prentice Hall of India, 1979
2. Physics of semiconductor devices by S.M. Sze, 2nd edition, Willey Eastern limited
 Advanced Control Theory

MPE-103 4 Hrs./week

Eight question to be set & any five to be answered.

Dynamics and control: An overview, control system configuration, model selection,

need for dynamic model, dynamic model by averaging: averaging a variable, averaging
a circuit, averaging a switching function, averaging a switch.

Linearized models: Linearization, linearizing a circuit, linearizing the average switch

Feedback control: The classical LTI control configuration, nominal stability, nominal
performance, robustness.

State space models: features of state space models, sate variables, inputs and outputs,
Continuous time models, state space models for electrical circuits, properties of sample
data models. Models for controllers and interconnected systems.
Linear and piecewise models: Linearization, linearizing continuous time models.
Analysis of continuous time LTI models: transform domains solution, time domain
solution, piecewise LTI models, linearizing discrete time models: time domain solution,
transform domain solution, transfer function and frequency response. Eigenvalue &
Eigenvector analysis for controllability and observability.

Feedback control design: classical control design, the nyquist stability criteria, a design
approach. Using bode plots, designing of bode plots of the loop gain, multi loop control:
State feedback: Pole placement by LTI state feedback, Nonlinear state feedback &
Digital control.

TEXTBOOKS

1. Principle of Power Electronics by John G Kassakein, Martin F. Schlecht, George c.

Verghees, Addision Wesley publishing company. 1991

Advanced Microprocessor

MPE-104 4 Hrs./week

Eight question to be set & five questions to be answered.

Internal architecture of 8086 CPU, instruction sets and programming, assembly

language programming on IBM PC, ROM bios and DOS utilities.
8086 basic system concepts, signals, instruction queue, MIN mode and MAX mode, bus
cycle, memory interface, read and write bus cycles, timing parameters.

Input/Output interface of 8086, I/O data transfer, I/O bus cycle. Interrupt interface of
8086, types of interrupts, interrupts processing. DMA transfer, interfacing and
refreshing DRAM, 8086 based multiprocessing system, 8087 math coprocessor.
Typical 8086 based system configuration, keyboard interface, CRT controller, floppy
disk controller.
Introduction to higher bit processors, 80286, 80386,80486, Pentium.

Microcontrollers: 8051, 80196, architecture, instruction set, programming, system

development using microcontrollers.
TEXTBOOKS
1. Advanced Microprocessor and peripherals, architecture, programming and
interfacing, Ajoy Kumar Ray & KIshor M Bhurchandi, Tata McGraw Hill
Publishing Company limited.
2. Advanced Microprocessor, Y. Rajasree, New Age International Publishers.

Digital Signal Processing

MPE-105 4 Hrs./week

Eight questions to be set & any five to be answered.

Introduction to signal processing, Review of Laplace transform, Z transform, fourier

transform. Discrete Fourier transform, Fast fourier transform, Algorithms and
complexity. Introduction to linear Optimal filtering.

Digital filters, IIR filters design

Introduction to DSP hardware

Application of DSP in control system and instrumentation.

TEXTBOOK
1. Digital signal Processing, S.K. Mitra

Variable Speed DC Drives

MPE-201 4 Hrs./week

Eight questions to be set & any five to be answered.

Review of power semiconductor devices: Power MOSFET, Insulated gate bipolar

transistor, power rectifiers, MOS gate thyristors, GTO. Comparison between new
semiconductor material and devices, smart power control chips.

Development of power electronics converters and its application to drive technology, a

systematic overview of applied power electronics converters, historical development of
power electronics converters for motion control, some functional consideration
regarding switching converters, controlling average energy flow by switching converter,
topology and structure of power electronics converters.

Electrical machines for drives: Introduction, Motor requirement for drives, commutator
motors- Torque production, losses and cooling, equivalent circuits, constant power
consideration, operational limitations.

Control of DC drives: Introduction, basic machine equations, breaking modes, scheme

of DC motor speed control, single phase separately excited drive, braking operation of
rectifier control separately excited motor, single phase DC series motor drives, power
factor improvement, three phase separately excited drives, DC chopper drives, closed
loop control of DC drives, phase locked loop (PLL) control of DC drives,
microcomputer control of DC drives.
TEXTBOOKS

1. Power Electronics and variable frequency drives, by Bimal K. Bose, Standard

publishers distributors
2. Power Electronics by M. D. Singh & K. B. Khanchandani, Tata Mc Graw Hll
publishing company, 1998

Variable Speed AC Drives

MPE-202 4 Hrs./week

Eight question to be set & any five to be answered.

Pulse width modulation for electronic power converter: DC to AC power conversion,

principle of power amplification, the half bridge topology, three phase power
conversion, an introduction to space vector: definition, normalization, switching state
vector, performance criteria: current harmonics, harmonic spectrum, space vector
trajectories.

Motion control with induction motor: inverter for adjustable speed, motion control
systems: classical, industry, standard, digital motion control with field oriented
induction motor (FO-IM). State variable, digital motion control with FO-IM, zero
tracking error, state variable, digital motion control with FO-IM, feed back sensor issues
for motion control with FO-IM.

Variable frequency permanent magnet AC machine drive: PMAC machine control

fundamentals, trapezoidal PMAC machine control, sinusoidal PMAC machine control,
advanced control techniques, PMAC drive application issues.

High power industrial drives: converters for large drives, synchronous motor fed by
externally commutated current source converters, induction motor fed by current source
converters, the cycloconverter fed by synchronous motor, slip power controlled drive.

TEXTBOOKS
 1. Modern power electronics & AC drives, Bimal K Bose, PHI, 2003
2. Power Electronics and variable frequency drives, Bimal K Bose, Standard
Publishers distributors.

Control of Power Electronic System

MPE-203 4 Hrs./week

Eight questions to be set & five questions to be answered.

Estimation, identification of sensor-less control of AC drives: Parameter identification

in brushless motors, parameter identification in induction motor. Sensor less drives of
AC motors, Robust motion control by estimation of mechanical parameters.

Switched reluctance motor control methods.

Microprocessor and digital ICs for power electronics drives: Hardware implementation,
Micro computer based implementation, Hardware/software trade offs,
Real time control using microcontrollers. Digital signal processors. Reduced instruction
set computing processors (RISC). Parallel processors: Transputers and parallel DSPs.
Application specific integrated circuit(ASICS). Field programmable gate arrays(FPGA)
and programmable logic devices(PLD). Control of power electronics logic hardware
system using CAD/VLSI. Design of microprocessor based control systems for dedicated
applications. Application Examples.

TEXTBOOKS

1. Modern power electronics & AC Drives, Bimal K Bose, PHI, 2003

2. Power Electronics and variable frequency Drives, Bimal K Bose, Standard
publishers distributors.
 Self Computing Techniques for Design

MPE-204 4 Hrs./week

Eight questions to be set & any five to be answered.

Simulation of power electronics and motion control systems, frequency domain versus
title domain analysis, issues in numerical solutions: numerical integration methods, non-
linear differential equations, automatic time step control, treatment of switches,
Overview of some widely used simulation programs: Spice, EMTP,Matlab/ Simulink

The mathematics of Fuzzy logic control, theory of approximate reasoning, fuzzy

knowledge based controllers, application of fuzzy logic control.

Experts system, fuzzy logic and neutral networks in power electronics and drives:
modeling and estimation, design methodology and control implementation.

Introduction artificial neutral networks, Learning in neutral networks, Hopfield network,

Boltzman machine, Back propagation training algorithms, traveling sales man problem,
associative memories, application of neutral networks.

TEXTBOOKS

1. Power Electronics & Variable frequency drives, by Bimal K Bose, standard

publishers distributors.
2. Fuzzy sets and fuzzy logic, theory and applications, George J. Klir & Bo Yuan,
Prentice Hall of India Private Limited.
 Nonlinear dynamical systems
MPE-205 4 Hrs./week

Eight questions to be set & any five to be answered.

Overview: Chaos, Fractals and dynamics, capsule history of dynamics, the importance
of being nonlinear, a dynamical view of the world.

One dimensional flow: Fixed point and stability, linear stability analysis, existence and
uniqueness, impossibility of oscillations, potentials.

Bifurcations: Introduction, saddle node bifurcation, transcritical bifurcation, pitchfork

bifurcation, imperfect bifurcation and catastrophes.

Two dimensional flows: Introduction, phase portraits, existence, uniqeness and

topological consequences, fixed points and linearization, conservative system, reversible
systems.

Limit cycles: Introduction, poincare- Bendixson theorem, lienard systems, relaxation

oscillations, weakly nonlinear oscillators.

Chaos : Introduction, a chaotic water wheel, simple properties of Lorentz equation,

strange attractor, Lorentz map, exploring parameters space, using chaos to send secret
message, liapunov exponents.

Fractals: Introduction, countables and uncountable sets, cantor set, dimension of self
similar fractals, box dimensions, point wise and correlation dimensions.

Strange attractors: Introduction, the simplest examples, Henon map, Rossler Map,
chemical chaos and attractor reconstruction. Chaos in electronics and power electronic
circuits.

TEXTBOOKS

1. Nonlinear dynamics and chaos, by Steven H. Strogatz, Addition – Wesly

publishing and company,1994
 SIKKIM MANIPAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Embedded Systems
MPE-205 4 Hrs./week

Eight question to be set & any five to be answered.

General Embedded system, basic components: Different hardwires for embedded system, Allocation
of memory, RAM Devices for Embedded system, Serial Devices and communication, Different buses
for intercommunication and networking, Different data structures and dataset.
Networking and DSP Concepts: Different types networking, OSI, TCP,ISDN. Basic operations of
DSP, LIT Discrete time system, Discrete time Fourier transform, Basic architecture of a Digital Signal
Processor.
PIC16X/7X Microcontroller: Features, CPU,ALU details, FSR, Status Registers, PC Latch , Pins,
Reset, ROR,BOR , Memory organization, OPTION,INTCON, Instructions, Ports, interrupts and
communication devices ,Addressing modes and Programming