Typhoon HIL Blog

Highlights

• Typhoon HIL solutions enable Hitachi Energy to push the limits of testing product functionality to cover customer needs throughout the entire product lifecycle.

• Software in the Loop (SIL) supports the development of individual algorithms but a higher fidelity testing environment is needed to ensure the system works as a whole.

• Controller Hardware-in-the-Loop (C-HIL) is a combination of real hardware controllers interfaced with a real-time simulation of the power system.

• Standard models in the Typhoon HIL microgrid library helped save 4-5 months in controller development and testing.

• C-HIL technology increased test coverage in a low-cost environment which ensures great product performance and cost-savings for Hitachi Energy customers.

Highlights

• Decentralization, Decarbonization, and Digitalization are driving emerging technologies for distributed control of microgrid assets.
• Hitachi Energy e-mesh is a vertically integrated system that manages and optimizes distributed energy resources from the device level to the systems control and IoT domain.
• Microgrid control systems optimize the flow of different assets to ensure the supply of electricity is stable and reliable.
• A football arena in Norway uses Hitachi Energy e-mesh solutions to integrate renewables in the urban community with microgrids and energy storage capabilities.
• Communication plays a key role in a distributed controls approach in which a high number of signals are transmitted and received between devices.

Blog Highlights

• AVL List GmbH uses Typhoon HIL test solutions in the agile development, prototyping, testing, and maintenance of firmware and hardware versions of their e-Storage BTE product portfolio.

• AVL e-Storage BTE can act as a battery tester and battery emulator for testing and validating batteries, e-motors, and inverters in early development phases.

• Controller Hardware-in-the-Loop (C-HIL) reduces firmware development and testing time, and as a result, speeds up the time-to market-for new features by enabling automated testing through all product variant cases.

• HIL in one word: Agile.