creator Rodriguez, Fernando creator Lukic, Srdjan M. creator Emadi, Ali A digital controller for controlling variable speed and dynamic torque applications of an electric motor. The controller includes a state observer monitoring a torque load requirement and sending a signal based on the torque load requirement, and a digital control unit for receiving the signal from the state observer and sending an output to the electric motor. The output is a value that corresponds to a first motor operating state or a second motor operating state. Submitted by Aric Ahrens (ahrens@iit.edu) on 2012-03-22T17:21:08Z No. of bitstreams: 1 7960931.pdf: 285945 bytes, checksum: 71625691755d38ef136375c85f307f82 (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2012-03-22T17:21:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7960931.pdf: 285945 bytes, checksum: 71625691755d38ef136375c85f307f82 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-06-14 Illinois Institute of Technology 2012-03-20 2011-06-14 7,960,931 http://hdl.handle.net/10560/2686 en United States Patent Patent reformatted digital application/pdf No Copyright - United States http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/ Open Access