Referee Review on a Monograph

Abstract

On the threshold of 2006 – 2007 the VGTU publishing office “Technika” published a new monograph MECHATRONICS SYSTEMS WITH LINEAR INDUCTION MOTORS prepared by professors of Vilnius Gediminas Technical University Roma Rinkevičienė, Algimantas Juozas Poška and Algirdas Smilgevičius. The monograph considers steady state and dynamic modes of mechatronic systems with linear induction motors (LIM) from the complex point of view. Considerable attention is paid to the analysis of problems of control of these systems with electronic power converters as well as to the problems of creating software and computer models. The examples of mechatronic systems with linear induction motors developed on the basis of research and investigations are presented. Among them are fire and explosions localizing systems, used in corn processing enterprises (elevators, mills, and combined fodder enterprises) as well as automatic phase to ground short circuit fault detection systems used in high voltage network with the isolated neutral.