Novel online simulator for education of power electronics and electrical engineering

摘要

In this paper a novel online simulator is introduced that is integrated into the educational project iPES which is a free collection of Java applets for educational purpose. iPES has been translated into 12 languages and has currently more than 10, 000 visits per month. The novel online simulator is optimized for power electronics, easy to use, and allows unlimited simulation of converter topologies. The concept of embedding a circuit simulator in the form of a Java applet into a webpage allows the creation of power electronic and electrical engineering courses that are easy for students to access, highly flexible and require a low administrative effort. The paper will discuss the status of the iPES project in detail including all shortcomings and will show how the integration of the online simulator significantly improves the educational value.