Electrical machines, more than 150 years old, have long been distinguished according to their mechanical structure and frequencies of their supply voltage (or current). This is not true any more after the electronic revolution. Since the fast development in power electronics as well as in control electronics these electronics can give any motor any desired speed-torque characteristic and any motor can become a servodrive having a very precise position control. By implementing digital control algorithms, mainly the cascaded, the state feedback or the cascaded state feedback control, and — if necessary, in addition — adaptive control procedures which compensate the variation of system parameters in the controller, the "intelligent electrical machine" — either with the synchronous or with the induction machine — is created. It is part of mechatronics. It can be installed in modern automated systems, in robots and tool machines, in all kinds of industrial drive systems as well as in locomotives and electric cars. Also modern methods like fuzzy logic and neural networks can be used. It seems that they will not create a second revolution in the control itself, but in the application areas of drives. They add some interesting features to the intelligent electrical machine and make it even more intelligent. They could also speed up the controller design in future.
A Numerical Study of New Vehicle Hydraulic Lift Activation by a Magneto-rheological Valve System for Precise Position Control
