Electric Drives, Third Edition [Book News]

The new enlarged and revised third edition of this excellent and popular textbook presents the latest concepts and basic electrical drive technology, including dc motors and vector and direct torque control of ac motors and generators. Several new paragraphs and recent references as well as two completely new chapters devoted to sensorless control of ac drives and generators and electric machine drives have been added (around 120 new pages). The book now has 17 chapters altogether. The book is highly recommended as a basic text for a wide audience of engineering educators, students, and engineers in industry. It is considered to be one of the best textbooks from the area of electric drives technology on the market, and it will certainly be at least as successful as the first and second editions.