MATLAB-based Tool for Teaching of Active Magnetic Bearing Design to Undergraduate Students

Visual educational tools are important in contributing to skills in the electrical engineering profession. This paper introduces an active magnetic bearing (AMB) design tool used to teach important skills in modern high-speed technology to undergraduate students. The proposed tool is based on MATLAB, and it has a visual and easy-to-understand graphical interface. The paper describes how to use the tool and gives a design example of an axial AMB. The tools provide an opportunity to import the design directly to a finite element method (FEM) software in order to enable further analysis. The tool is also discussed from the perspectives of research and education.