Laboratory Simulations Packet for Power Electronics Circuits: Teaching and Training

Abstract

In order to keep a periodic maintenance for the laboratories of electrical & electronic engineering and prolong the lifespan of their equipment, these labs must be periodically updated. Nowadays, due to the unstable situation of the country, the cost of the laboratories equipment increases and sometimes spare parts are not available. However, most of these labs are out of date and do not follow the rapid development of the electrical systems. In addition, they contain a lot of non-operational equipment, devices, parts, and measurement units. Therefore, because of these reasons, modeling and simulation tools for electrical systems have emerged to enable users building up, observing, analyzing, modifying and designing various operational systems without the actual need to order components and assembling. This paper presents a simulations packet for educational and training purposes. The simulations package deals with power electronics converters and their applications. This developed tool version is improved for electrical and electronic engineering students at the undergraduate level and is covering the practical part of power electronics courses. The proposed simulations package is based on libraries of Matlab/Simulink software. The methodology is demonstrated by realizing numerous simulation examples of converter circuits.