6 ECTS credits
150 h study time

Offer 1 with catalog number 3023553ANR for all students in the 1st and 2nd semester at a (A) Bachelor - preliminary level.

Semester
1st and 2nd semester
Enrollment based on exam contract
Impossible
Grading method
Grading (scale from 0 to 20)
Can retake in second session
Yes
Taught in
English
Partnership Agreement
Under agreement for exchange of courses
Faculty
Faculteit Ingenieurswetenschappen
Department
Applied Mechanics
External partners
Université libre de Bruxelles
Educational team
Philippe Lataire (course titular)
Pierre Henneaux
Activities and contact hours
36 contact hours Lecture
36 contact hours Seminar, Exercises or Practicals
Course Content

• Reminder about basic notions of electricity (phasors, active/reactive/complex/apparent powers, Maxwell’s laws, Laplace’s law, magnetic circuits, iron losses, etc.) – 2 hours of theory + 4 hours of exercises
• Three-phase power systems – 4 hours of theory + 4 hours of exercises
• General introduction to electric machines – 2 hours of theory
• Inductances & transformers – 4 hours of theory + 4 hours of exercises
• The DC machine – 4 hours of theory + 4 hours of exercises
• The induction machine – 4 hours of theory + 4 hours of exerciseS
• The synchronous machine - 4 hours of theory + 4 hours of exercises
• Principles of control systems: transfer functions; feedback systems; stability; Nyquist criterium; Root-locus; step response of a linear system; frequency response of a linear system. 3 half day sessions
• Illustration of the previous on mechanical systems, electronic systems, power electronic systems. 2 half day laboratory sessions
• Power electronics: semiconductor devices; rectifiers; PWM DC/AC converters. 2 half day sessions.
• Assistance in the Control System Design practical sessions. 2 half day sessions at the end of the first semester.
• Assistance in the Electrical Drives practical sessions. 3 half day sessions during the second semester.

Additional info

Book: Power electronics, Mohan

Course notes/Syllabus : How does an induction motor operates, P. Lataire, VUB uitgaven

Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes

  • De studenten moeten het gedrag van een lineair dynamisch systeem leren begrijpen en hun ideeën leren toetsen aan de hand van experimenten.
  • De studenten moeten leren analoge regelkringen analyseren en ontwerpen.
  • De studenten moeten kennis en inzicht verworven hebben in de opbouw, de werking en de kenmerken van elektrische aandrijvingen met driefasige wisselstroom motor en vermogenselektronische pulsbreedte modulatie omzetter.
  • Zij moeten kennis en inzicht verworven hebben in het meten van de elektrische en mechanische grootheden (spanning, stroom, vermogen, faseverschuiving, harmonisch gehalte, harmonische vervorming, golfvormen, koppel, snelheid) die in de hoger vermelde aandrijving voorkomen.
  • Zij moeten kennis en inzicht hebben over de opbouw en de functies van de vermogenselektronische schakelingen van het type hakker, communicatienetwerken en geschakelde voedingen.
  • Het dynamisch gedrag van een lineair systeem begrijpen en kunnen beschrijven in het continue en discrete tijdsdomein
  • Tijdsdomein/frequentiedomein beheersen
  • Discretisatie proces begrijpen
  • Zelfstanding een regelkring kunnen analyseren

Grading

The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Oral Exam determines 100% of the final mark.

Within the Oral Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:

  • Oral exam with a relative weight of 1 which comprises 100% of the final mark.

Additional info regarding evaluation

Examination by a jury composed of teaching staff members of the programme.

Interview-based examination.

Per team. 3-4 student per team.
 

Allowed unsatisfactory mark
The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.

Academic context

This offer is part of the following study plans:
Preparatory Programme Master of Science in Electromechanical Engineering: Standaard traject