A High Performance Real-Time Simulator for Controllers Hardware-in-the-Loop Testing
This paper presents a high performance real-time simulator for power electronic systems applications and primarily intended for controller hardware-in-the-loop (CHIL) testing. The novelty of the proposed simulator resides in the massively parallel hardware architecture that efficiently exploits fine...
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| author | Reza Iravani Houshang Karimi Amir Etemadi Mahmoud Matar |
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| description | This paper presents a high performance real-time simulator for power electronic systems applications and primarily intended for controller hardware-in-the-loop (CHIL) testing. The novelty of the proposed simulator resides in the massively parallel hardware architecture that efficiently exploits fine-grained parallelism without imposing severe communication overhead time that can limit the performance. The simulator enables the use of a nanosecond range simulation timestep to simulate power electronic systems. Through the use of this nanosecond range simulation timestep, the simulator minimizes the error arising from the intersimulation timestep switching phenomenon associated with CHIL. The proposed hardware architecture is realized based on the FPGA technology. The simulator is tested and its CHIL capability verified based on the closed-loop testing of a robust multivariable servomechanism controller for autonomous operation of a distributed generation unit. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e235e2c97dd04f7295c52d066f656bae2022-12-22T03:08:48ZengMDPI AGEnergies1996-10732012-06-01561713173310.3390/en5061713A High Performance Real-Time Simulator for Controllers Hardware-in-the-Loop TestingReza IravaniHoushang KarimiAmir EtemadiMahmoud MatarThis paper presents a high performance real-time simulator for power electronic systems applications and primarily intended for controller hardware-in-the-loop (CHIL) testing. The novelty of the proposed simulator resides in the massively parallel hardware architecture that efficiently exploits fine-grained parallelism without imposing severe communication overhead time that can limit the performance. The simulator enables the use of a nanosecond range simulation timestep to simulate power electronic systems. Through the use of this nanosecond range simulation timestep, the simulator minimizes the error arising from the intersimulation timestep switching phenomenon associated with CHIL. The proposed hardware architecture is realized based on the FPGA technology. The simulator is tested and its CHIL capability verified based on the closed-loop testing of a robust multivariable servomechanism controller for autonomous operation of a distributed generation unit.http://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/5/6/1713real-time simulationelectromagnetic transientsdistributed generationpower electronics interfacemodelingFPGA |
| spellingShingle | Reza Iravani Houshang Karimi Amir Etemadi Mahmoud Matar A High Performance Real-Time Simulator for Controllers Hardware-in-the-Loop Testing Energies real-time simulation electromagnetic transients distributed generation power electronics interface modeling FPGA |
| title | A High Performance Real-Time Simulator for Controllers Hardware-in-the-Loop Testing |
| title_full | A High Performance Real-Time Simulator for Controllers Hardware-in-the-Loop Testing |
| title_fullStr | A High Performance Real-Time Simulator for Controllers Hardware-in-the-Loop Testing |
| title_full_unstemmed | A High Performance Real-Time Simulator for Controllers Hardware-in-the-Loop Testing |
| title_short | A High Performance Real-Time Simulator for Controllers Hardware-in-the-Loop Testing |
| title_sort | high performance real time simulator for controllers hardware in the loop testing |
| topic | real-time simulation electromagnetic transients distributed generation power electronics interface modeling FPGA |
| url | http://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/5/6/1713 |
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