The Electric Motor

Hey Guys,

The third most important part of an electric vehicle is the electric motor. There are tons of books and online material on electric motors and hence I will not go into the mathematical details of it. You guys will learn the basics of electric machines in your ES2 (Electrical Sciences 2) course and I urge you to do that sincerely (even if you do not like the text book! :))

Today I will try to give you some pointers on electric motors so that we can  directly jump into modeling of all these components

You may want to be conversant with the following if you want to excel in this field

1. AC Induction Motors (3ph, Single phase)
2. Brushed DC motors and Brushless DC motors
3. Permanent magnet motors
4. Differences between the above three
5. Theory of Induction (stator/ rotor construction, importance of air gap, winding patterns etc)
6. Equivalent circuits of induction motors (very important)
7. Finite Element analysis of Motors (to calculate fundamental parameters like resistances and inductance which are used in motor control)
8. Motor Control Basics

A few of the good resources that I know are:

1. MIT Open course ware for Electric machines:
2. NPTEL: Electrical Machines 1, 2,3courses: 

     Books:

1. Electric Motors and Drives by Austin Hughes
2. Induction Motor Control Design by Riccardo Marino et al. (advanced book)
3. Motors and Drives (A practical Technology Guide) by Dave Polka  

I would say this should get you started on electric motors. Your aim should not be memorizing equations and solving problems, but to understand the induction concept and modeling a motor in MATLAB. I will briefly go over MATLAB modeling later