Why DriveLab

The idea of developing DriveLab came from classroom experience. Teaching electric machines, drives and power electronics, there was always a lack of simple, computationally light tools that could show, “in real time”, the effect of the many parameters and settings on the behaviour of electric drive systems and power electronic converters.

General-purpose simulators are powerful, but they require installation, licences, model building and simulation time — which keeps away the quick “what if I change this?” experiments that build intuition. DriveLab was designed to fill that gap: it opens in any browser, with nothing to install, and responds at once to every setting.

What it is

Electric Drives brings together, in a single page, its own models and simulators of machines, converters and control loops: steady-state curves, equivalent circuits, switched waveforms, spectra, space vectors, block diagrams and a live oscilloscope that follows starts, load steps and disturbances while the parameters are changed.

Modules: DC machine · AC machines (rotating field, Clarke and Park) · induction machine · dynamic control (coming soon) · thyristor bridges · PWM converters · vector control · PWM techniques.

Everything is computed in the browser itself, in English and Portuguese, with light and dark themes and high-resolution figure export.