15th Triennial World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control
  Barcelona, 21–26 July 2002 
GENERALIZATION OF LINEAR CONTROL TOOLS FOR COMPLEX VECTORS
F. Briz, M.W. Degner, A. Diez, R.D. Lorenz
Dept. of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering, University of Oviedo,
Campus de Viesques, 2.1.07, Gijón, 33204, Spain, Email: fernando@isa.uniovi.es
Ford Motor Company, Ford Research Laboratory, 2101 Village Road,
P.O. Box 2053, MD 1170, Dearborn, MI 48121, USA. Email: mdegner@ford.com
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Dept’s of ME & ECE,
1513 University Ave., Madison, WI 53706, USA, Email: lorenz@engr.wisc.edu

Complex vectors have established them selves as powerful tool in the modeling and control of three-phase electrical AC systems. Generalization of classical control tools like root locus and frequency response function for the case of complex variables will be shown in this paper to provide tremendous insight in the analysis and design of high performance, three-phase current regulators for AC systems.
Keywords: Current regulators, electric machines, complex variables, inverter drives
Session slot T-Tu-M21: Posters of Control Design/Area code 2a : Control Design