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Terminated in academic year 2022/2023

Power Electronics of Automotive Systems II

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction English
Code 430-4124/02
Abbreviation VEAS2
Course title Power Electronics of Automotive Systems II
Credits 4
Coordinating department Department of Applied Electronics
Course coordinator Ing. Aleš Havel, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

Lectures:
1. Modern switching semiconductor components, power transistors, IGBT, switchable types of thyristors.
2. Topologies of DC/DC converters without transformer, variants of wiring according to voltage polarity and direction of current, principles of operation, basic types of control and applications, solved examples (1).
3. Topologies of DC/DC converters without transformer, variants of wiring according to voltage polarity and current direction, principles of operation, basic types of control and applications, solved examples (2).
4. Basic and modern topologies of switching power supplies, Forward and Flyback inverters, switched stabilizers, efficiency of switching power supplies, solved examples.
5. Basic and modern topologies of switching power sources with transformer, Push-Pull type inverters, double-acting inverters, efficiency of switching sources, solved examples.
6. DC / DC converters with soft switching, ZCS and ZVS principles, resonant converters.
7. Switched back-up and charging electronic sources, applications in automotive.
8. Voltage Inverters, principles, wiring, output voltage control, width control, PWM control, vector PWM, applications (1).
9. Voltage inverters, principles, wiring, output voltage control methods, width control, PWM control, vector PWM, applications (2).
10. Current inverters, principles, connections, applications.
11. Indirect frequency converters with voltage and current intermediate circuits, their applications in hybrid and electric vehicles.
12. Examples of design and arrangement of inverters, specific applications, development tendencies of power semiconductor systems in the automotive field.

Exercises:
1. Basics of design of power semiconductor devices.
2. Calculation of power loss of semiconductor components in switching mode.
3. Examples of calculation and practice of the theory of DC/DC converters.
4. Laboratory task No. 1 - DC/DC converters, buck and boost DC/DC converters.
5. Simulation of selected topologies of DC/DC converters in OrCAD/PSpice.
6. Design of the power and control part of the Forward and Flyback switching power source.
7. Test No. 1.
8. Laboratory task No. 2 - DC / DC converters with transformer, Forward and Flyback inverters.
9. Laboratory task No. 3 - measurement of load characteristics and efficiency of switching power supplies.
10. Examples of calculation and practice of the voltage inverter theory.
11. Simulation of selected topologies of voltage and current inverters in OrCAD / PSpice.
12. Laboratory task No. 4 - 1-phase voltage inverter, width and PWM control.
13. Laboratory task No. 5 - 3-phase voltage inverter, width and PWM control, modes U / f = const. and U / f ≠ const.
14. Test No. 2.

Workout of laboratory exercises:
  Laboratory Task No. 1 - DC / DC Converters, Buck and Boost DC/DC converter.
  Laboratory Task 2 - DC / DC Converters with transformer: Forward and Flyback.
  Laboratory Task 3 - Measurement of load characteristics and efficiency of switching power supplies.
  Laboratory task No. 4 - 1-phase voltage inverter, width and PWM control.
  Laboratory task No. 5 - 3-phase voltage inverter, width and PWM control, modes U / f = const. and U / f ≠ const.

Literature

Emadi, A.: Handbook of Automotive Power Electronics and Motor Drives. CRC Press, 2017. ISBN 1420028154 , ISBN 978-1420028157 .
BOSE, Bimal K. Modern power electronics and AC drives. Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall PTR, c2002. ISBN 0-13-016743-6.
Trzynadlowski, Andrzej Maria. Introduction to modern power electronics. 2nd ed. Hoboken: Wiley, c2010. ISBN 978-0-470-40103-3.

Advised literature

BOSE, Bimal K. Power electronics and motor drives: advances and trends. Burlington: Elsevier/Academic Press, c2006. ISBN 0-12-088405-4.
Rashid, M. H.: Power Electronics. Prentice-Hall International, Inc., 1993, ISBN 0-13-334483-5.