A multimedia based teaching laboratory on electric drives

The course of diagnostic of electric machines, which is held at the electrical department of Palermo University by one of the authors, has been provided with a multimedia teaching laboratory on electric drives. The multimedia architecture of this laboratory is described. This multimedia architecture allows one to present and to use through one apparatus a theoretic section, a simulation section and the experimental section. The instrumentation, the software, the hardware, which has been used, and several tests, which have been prepared, are presented. All tests describe the standard experimental investigation on the electric drive focusing the investigation on the important parts of a drive (electronic stage, power stage, etc.)