Digital simulation of electrical systems to reinforce laboratory teaching

Author

Cheung, W.N.

Author_Institution

Fac. of Inf. Sci. & Eng., Univ. of Canberra, ACT, Australia

Volume

42

Issue

1

fYear

1999

fDate

2/1/1999 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

22

Lastpage

32

Abstract

For the purpose of reinforcing undergraduate laboratory teaching, we have shown some applications of PSpice in the simulation of communication and control systems. Examples discussed include the telephone link, the quadrature PSK system, a feedback control system with transport lag and nonlinearity, and a digital control system. In each example, a schematic diagram of the system, the input circuit file, and representative output graphs are given. With behavioral modeling of some devices in the system, the simulation time for each job is kept to within a few minutes. As a result, students are able to run such programs using the evaluation version of the package on their personal computers

Keywords

computer aided instruction; control engineering education; control system analysis computing; control systems; digital control; digital simulation; feedback; quadrature phase shift keying; telecommunication computing; telecommunication engineering education; telephony; PSpice; behavioral modeling; communication systems; control systems; digital control system; digital simulation; electrical systems; feedback control system; input circuit file; nonlinearity; personal computers; quadrature PSK system; representative output graphs; schematic diagram; telephone link; transport lag; undergraduate laboratory teaching; virtual analog simulation; Circuit simulation; Communication system control; Control system synthesis; Digital control; Digital simulation; Education; Feedback control; Laboratories; Phase shift keying; Telephony;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Education, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9359

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/13.746329

Filename

746329