Web based teaching of electrical drives using a mechanical load simulator

In this paper a Web based teaching of electrical drives using a mechanical load simulator is presented. The developed system allows testing the behavior of an electrical machine for different load types. Several typical loads in which the torque depends of time or speed are implemented. In this way, using this tool it is possible to study the dynamic behavior of an electrical machine. It is also used to study induction machine fault diagnosis under different load types. The remote laboratory is based on an I/O interface controller and client-server architecture. To implement this system the software package MATLAB was used.