Iqbal Husain
Associate Professor
- Dept. of Electrical Engineering
- The University of Akron
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- Akron, OH 44321
- Telephone: (330)-972-8495
- Fax: (330)-972-6487
- Email address: ihusain@uakron.edu
- URL: http://www.ecgf.uakron.edu/husain
Key words:
Switched reluctance machines,
Electric machinery,
Motor drives,
Parameter estimation,
Power electronics
Unlisted key words:
S
DSP Motor Controls,
Novel machines,
PM Machines,
Induction Machines,
Soft-Switching Converters
Research description:
The research interests of Dr. Husain are in the areas of motor controls, PM/switched reluctance machines, novel machine design, soft-switching power converters, DSP/microcomputer control of drives, and fuzzy logic and neural network controls.
Recent Projects: Low noise and wide speed range SRM design, SRM for automotive applications, sensorless control of induction motors, neural network control of PM machines, sliding mode motor controls, novel machines design.
Laboratory facilities:
POWER SUPPLIES
220/115V, 3-Phase , 38kW supply (Ohio Edison)
400Hz and 1000Hz three-phase generators
0-300V, 0-33A DC Power Supplies
MACHINES
Upto 5kW Dynamometers
Various DC, PM, Induction, Synchronous and Switched Reluctance Machines ranging from fractional hp to 10kW
DRIVES
Several AC and DC drives from Rockwell
SRM Drives from Tridelta
EQUIPMENT
DSpace rapid prototyping development system
TMS320C30 and C240 based DSP Development Systems
Data acquisition systems
Assortment of Oscilloscopes, Fluke Digital Meters,Tektronix Current Probes, Signal Generators, Voltage Isolators,Torque, Position, Speed and Acceleration Transducers
SOFTWARE
Matlab/Simulink, Mathcad, Simplorer, Flux 2D, Pspice, Visual Basic, Visual C++.
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