Simulation Tools For Power Electronics Courses, Based In Java Technologies

Abstract

This paper presents interactive power electronics educational tools. These interactive tools make use of the benefits of Java language to provide a dynamic and interactive approach in order to simulate steadystate idealized rectifiers (uncontrolled and controlled; single-phase and three-phase). Additionally, this paper discusses the development and the usage of the Java applet programs to assist the teaching of conventional power electronics rectifier circuits, and to serve as a first design tool for the basic laboratory experiments in the power electronics courses. Some results were confronted with a well-known simulator package in order to validate the developed interactive simulation applets.

Keywords

• E-learning
• Education Tools
• Java Applets
• Power Electronics Teaching