Laplace Circuit Solver: A Tactile-based Educational Electronic Board Simulator for Producing Electrical Circuit’s Laplace Transform Equation
Mohd Safirin Karis1, Amar Faiz Zainal Abidin2, Nurul Zarirah Nizam3, Wira Hidayat Mohd Saad4, Nursabillilah Mohd Ali5, Ahmad Sayuthi Mohamad Shokri6

1Mohd Safirin Karis, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Malaysia.
2Amar Faiz Zainal Abidin, Faculty of Electrical & Electronic Engineering Technology, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Malaysia.
3Nurul Zarirah Nizam, Faculty of Technology Management and Technopreneurship, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Malaysia.
4Wira Hidayat Mohd Saad, Faculty of Electronic & Computer Engineering, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Malaysia.
5Nursabillilah Mohd Ali, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Malaysia.
6Ahmad Sayuthi Mohamad Shokri, Faculty of Electrical & Electronic Engineering Technology, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Malaysia.

Manuscript received on 4 August 2019. | Revised Manuscript received on 11 August 2019. | Manuscript published on 30 September 2019. | PP: 2421-2426 | Volume-8 Issue-3 September 2019 | Retrieval Number: C4676098319/2019©BEIESP | DOI: 10.35940/ijrte.C4676.098319
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Abstract: Laplace Transform equation is greatly used to solve the differential equation. Laplace Transform has been an integral part of the Control System, Engineering Mathematics, and Signal and System syllabus. Although the importance of Laplace Transform is significant, it can be seen that the students are still struggling with this topic. This project aims to address this by creating a low cost and interactive electronic board that translate the models the electrical circuit to its Laplace domain. The objective of this project is to provide a student to an alternative software simulator for student to simulate the electrical circuit model. This educational kit helps students to obtain the transfer function of the system from the circuit via a tactile-based educational kit named Laplace Circuit Solver. The development of the teaching aid is explained extensively where the main component used is Arduino Mega while the output is display using TFT LCD screen. The flow of this project is firstly the user need to push the push button and the green LED will on. After that, the user should insert the component and the red LED will on. During that time, the buzzer will ring. After a moment, the green LED will turn on and the screen will display the equation. Finally, the equation displayed will follow the inserted component. The teaching aid is verified by testing all the possible scenario and the result indicates that the teaching aid produce the expected output.
Index Terms: Control Principles; Laplace Transform; Educational kit;.

Scope of the Article: Knowledge Modelling, Integration, Transformation, and Management,