Ferramenta didática para ensino em engenharia eletrônica: integração a conversores de energia

Abstract

Attempts to modernize or rethink education have been proposed through the introduction of new technologies in education, and therefore education can no longer be seen as the instruction that the teacher passes to the student, but in the construction of knowledge. In a recent quest realizes with professors, students and graduates in undergraduate research programs and in final work of the course in Electronic Engineering of the UTFPR - campus Toledo, identified the need for learning objects that make it possible to explore practical applications in curricular subjects, in particular, relating the control theory to electronic systems. In this respect, this work aims to develop a didactic tool that allows knowledge through research and design of analogue and digital controllers for configurations of DC-DC converter. This class of circuits in the Power Electronics domain allows to explore practical conditions of low cost and high impact in the process of collective construction of knowledge. The development concept of the learning object includes a printed circuit board capable of switching basic topologies of DC-DC converters (Buck and Boost) in order to develop a didactic tool in linear control.