EV - Vehicle Dynamics and Electric Motor Drives

By Prof. Amit Jain, Prof. Avanish Tripathi | IIT Delhi

Learners enrolled: 7616 | Exam registration: 2800

ABOUT THE COURSE :

This course will be a first level course on electric vehicle. Students will be able to understand the operation of battery driven electric vehicle. The course will start with introduction section which will enable the students to understand the focus areas that come under the umbrella of electric vehicles. Then the course will start covering this focus areas one by one such as vehicle dynamics, Motors, Power Electronics, PWM, Control etc. The most important part of this course will be that each topic will bean analyzed and demonstrated through Matlab Simulink, so that the grip of the subject will be strong and the knowledge acquired will be useable in real time applications.

INTENDED AUDIENCE : Interested Students

PREREQUISITES : BE (Electrical) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL425060D3C78350E1

Summary

Course Status :	Ongoing
Course Type :	Elective
Language for course content :	English
Duration :	12 weeks
Category :	Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering
Credit Points :	3
Level :	Undergraduate/Postgraduate
Start Date :	19 Jan 2026
End Date :	10 Apr 2026
Enrollment Ends :	02 Feb 2026
Exam Registration Ends :	20 Feb 2026
Exam Date :	17 Apr 2026 IST
NCrF Level	4.5 — 8.0

Note: This exam date is subject to change based on seat availability. You can check final exam date on your hall ticket.

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Course layout

Week 01 : Introduction to Electric Vehicle

Week 02 : Vehicle Dynamics: Modelling and Simulation

Week 03 : Fundamental of Drives and Power Electronics for DC Drives

Week 04 : Modeling and Control of DC Motor Drives

Week 05 : Basics of Induction Motor and V/f Control

Week 06 : Realization of Power Electronic Converters and PWM for IM drives

Week 07 : Modelling of PMSM Drives

Week 08 : Vector Control of PMSM Drives
Week 09 :

Modeling of general cylindrical-rotor motor in stationary reference frame and concept of different rotating frames of reference
Review of PMSM and modeling of PMSM in RFO frame of reference
Sensored vector control of PMSM drive

Week 10 :

Modeling of induction motor in rotor flux-oriented reference frame
Modeling of induction motor contd ...
Sensored and sensor-less vector control of IM drive

Week 11 :

Discussion of BH curve for various magnetic materials
Principle of operation of switched reluctance
Various configurations of SRM and computation of step angle
Power converter realization and control of SRM
Basics of BLDC motor drive
Power converter realization and control of SRM

Week 12 :

Case study of high-end EV
Case study contd ...
Case study contd... and conclusion

Books and references

Iqbal Husain, ELECTRIC and HYBRIDVEHICLES, Design Fundamentals, CRC Press,2003.2. M. Ehsani, Y. Gao, S. Gay and A. Emadi,Modern Electric, Hybrid Electric, and Fuel CellVehicles, CRC Press, 2005.

Instructor bio

Prof. Amit Jain

IIT Delhi

Amit Kumar Jain is presently working as Associate Professor in Department of ElectricalEngineering, IIT Delhi. He is done his Ph.D and M.S from Department of ElectricalEngineering, I.I.Sc, Bangalore and spend around two years in General Electric GlobalResearch Center before joining IIT Delhi in 2012. He expertise includes electric drives forrenewable and electric vehicle application. He has also started a course on ElectricVehicles in IIT Delhi which is now been converted to NPTEL video course.

Prof. Avanish Tripathi

Prof. Avanish received his B.Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi in 2009. He was awarded M.S. and PhD degrees from Department of Electrical Engineering, IISc Bangalore in 2017. MS and PhD works were focused on Low Switching Frequency Pulse Width Modulation for high-power and/or high-speed induction motor drives. Dr. Avanish has gained industry experience in Indian Oil Corporation (2009-2011), Delta Electronics, Bangalore (2017- 2019) & Texas Instruments, Bangalore (2019-2020). He has also served as Assistant Professor in Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Roorkee (2020-2022). Currently, he is part of Department of Energy Science and Engineering, IIT Delhi as Assistant Professor since October’2022. His research interests include power electronics, electric transportation, electric vehicle charging infrastructure, wind & solar power generation, multi-motor drives, high-power & high-speed motor drives, pulse width modulation techniques, modelling & control of power converters, power converter technologies, grid connected converters and low switching frequency operation & control.

Course certificate

The course is free to enroll and learn from. But if you want a certificate, you have to register and write the proctored exam conducted by us in person at any of the designated exam centres.

The exam is optional for a fee of Rs 1000/- (Rupees one thousand only).

Date and Time of Exams: : April 17, 2026 Morning session 9am to 12 noon; Afternoon Session 2pm to 5pm.

Registration url: Announcements will be made when the registration form is open for registrations.

The online registration form has to be filled and the certification exam fee needs to be paid. More details will be made available when the exam registration form is published. If there are any changes, it will be mentioned then.

Please check the form for more details on the cities where the exams will be held, the conditions you agree to when you fill the form etc.

CRITERIA TO GET A CERTIFICATE

Average assignment score = 25% of average of best 8 assignments out of the total 12 assignments given in the course.
Exam score = 75% of the proctored certification exam score out of 100

Final score = Average assignment score + Exam score

Please note that assignments encompass all types (including quizzes, programming tasks, and essay submissions) available in the specific week.

YOU WILL BE ELIGIBLE FOR A CERTIFICATE ONLY IF AVERAGE ASSIGNMENT SCORE >=10/25 AND EXAM SCORE >= 30/75. If one of the 2 criteria is not met, you will not get the certificate even if the Final score >= 40/100.

Certificate will have your name, photograph and the score in the final exam with the breakup.It will have the logos of NPTEL and IIT Madras .It will be e-verifiable at nptel.ac.in/noc.

Only the e-certificate will be made available. Hard copies will not be dispatched.

Once again, thanks for your interest in our online courses and certification. Happy learning.

- NPTEL team