M.Tech I Year II Semester (R17)
Power Electronics, Electronic devices and circuits
Course objectives:
Upon the completion of the course the student will be able to
Basic Converter Circuits: Buck Regulator, Buck- Boost Regulator, Boost Regulator, Cuk Converters and Resonant Converters. Choice of switching frequency.
Isolated SMPS: Fly back Converter, Forward Converter, Half-Bridge and Full Bridge Converters, Push-Pull Converter and SMPS with multiple outputs. Choice of switching frequency.
Control Aspects: PWM Controllers, Isolation in feedback loop, Power Supplies with multiple output. Stability analysis using Bode Diagrams.
Design Considerations: Selection of output filter capacitor, Selection of energy storage inductor, Design of High Frequency Inductor and High frequency Transformer, Selection of switches. Snubber circuit design, Design of driver circuits.
Electro Magnetic Interference (EMI): EMI Filter Components, Conducted EMI suppression, Radiated EMI suppression, Measurement. Protection: Over current protection, over voltage protection, Inrush current protection. Thermal Model: Thermal Resistance, Cooling Considerations, Selection of Heat sinks, Simple Heat sink calculations.
Upon the completion of this course, the student will be able to
Artificial Neural Networks: Introduction-Models of Neural Network - Architectures – Knowledge representation – Artificial Intelligence and Neural networks – Learning process – Error correction learning – Hebbian learning – Competitive learning – Boltzman learning – Supervised learning – Unsupervised learning – Reinforcement learning - learning tasks.
ANN Paradigms : Multi – layer perceptron using Back propagation Algorithm-Self – organizing Map – Radial Basis Function Network – Functional link, network – Hopfield Network.
Fuzzy Logic: Introduction – Fuzzy versus crisp – Fuzzy sets - Membership function – Basic Fuzzy set operations – Properties of Fuzzy sets – Fuzzy cartesian Product – Operations on Fuzzy relations – Fuzzy logic – Fuzzy Quantifiers - Fuzzy Inference - Fuzzy Rule based system - Defuzzification methods.
Genetic Algorithms: Introduction-Encoding – Fitness Function-Reproduction operators - Genetic Modeling – Genetic operators - Crossover - Single–site crossover – Two-point crossover – Multi point crossover-Uniform crossover – Matrix crossover - Crossover Rate - Inversion & Deletion – Mutation operator –Mutation – Mutation Rate-Bit-wise operators - Generational cycle-convergence of Genetic Algorithm.
Applications of AI Techniques: Load forecasting – Load flow studies – Economic load dispatch – Load frequency control – Single area system and two area system – Small Signal Stability (Dynamic stability) Reactive power control – speed control of DC and AC Motors.
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