A HEALTH MONITORING SYSTEM HAVING A POWER CONVERTER CONTROLLER FOR AN ELECTRIC MACHINE

摘要

Provided is a health monitoring system (100) for an electric machine (150) that includes a power converter (120) which receives power from an electric power supply, supplies power to the electric machine (150), and receives operational data from the electric machine (150). At least one power converter computing unit (130) is disposed within the power converter (120) and includes one or more software modules (136, 137) for performing control for the power converter (120) and diagnostics of the electric machine (150).