OpenDSS software integration brings power flow with a seamless transition to real-time, deterministic analysis.
In response to the DoD Digital Engineering Strategy (2018), the US Office of the Secretary of Defense’s Environmental Security Technology Certification Program (ESTCP) funded Typhoon HIL to demonstrate the Integrated Model-Based Design Process (IMBDP) for affordable, scalable, and resilient DoD installation microgrids.
Topics: Microgrids, controller hardware in the loop, hardware in the loop, HIL, Resilience, advanced grid support functions, power systems, mbse
Fuji Electric Co., Ltd.
Power Electronics System Energy Business Headquarters
Power Supply Equipment Development Department
Mr. Kazuyoshi Umezawa, Mr. Motohiro Tsukuta, Mr. Takuya Kimizu (from left to right)
Topics: Research Laboratories, inverter controller, C-HIL, controller hardware in the loop, HIL, Energy, firmware design, controller design, HIL simulation, power systems, mbse, Success Story, BESS, UPS
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Story Summary
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.
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.
Topics: Smart Inverters, C-HIL, controller hardware in the loop, hardware in the loop, HIL, Energy, grid code compliance, advanced grid support functions, HIL simulation, EV
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Energy networks worldwide are evolving to become increasingly more decentralized, fueled by new developments in many sectors: Industry 4.0, Distributed Energy Resources (DERs), electric vehicles (EVs), and more. This means greater need for robust local control and storage systems to avoid dangerous disruptions or blackouts. These factors are driving innovation, particularly in two areas: new power electronic controllers for energy storage and DERs, and new system level control architectures that can control microgrids effectively in a wider range of conditions.
Topics: HIL, Digital Twin, smart grid converters, advanced grid support functions, model microgrids, controller design, HIL simulation, microgrid hardware in the loop, microgrid testbed, power systems
Story Summary:
At the Honda R&D power electronics development department, improving productivity, streamlining development, and shortening delivery time are essential. These are also the key reasons why Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) and model-based development (MBD) is attracting attention in control development. Why did Honda R&D Co., Ltd., a long-time user and advocate of HIL technology, choose Typhoon HIL?
We asked the person in charge at the development department.
Topics: Research Laboratories, C-HIL, HIL, interoperability, power electronics design, controller design, HIL simulation, motor drives, EV
The case study featured here is a 3 MW doubly fed induction motor (DFIM) drive used for mining applications. The DFIM drive controls were designed, built, and tested by Indrivetec AG, at the request of CSE-Uniserve. Indrivetec AG is a Zurich-based power electronics, drives, and energy storage company and is an early adopter of Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) technology with a research lab primarily based on HIL for control design and testing.
The stator of this motor is connected to the medium voltage grid, and the rotor is connected to a liquid resistor of the system integrator CSE-Uniserve and an Indrivetec Insulated-gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) converter. Here, the resistor is used for starting and running at a constant speed, while the converter is used for variable speed operation.
Topics: C-HIL, HIL, DER, power electronics design, HIL simulation, variable speed drives
Topics: C-HIL, controller hardware in the loop, hardware in the loop, HIL, Energy, smart grid converters, HIL simulation, motor drives, variable speed drives
While automotive and aerospace industries have already adopted model based HIL testing, power electronics industry is only playing a catch up. The good news is that the 4th generation HIL is delivering the unprecedented model fidelity needed for the most advanced motor drives and automotive power electronics applications.
Topics: C-HIL, controller hardware in the loop, HIL, smart grid converters, power electronics design, controller design, HIL simulation, motor drives
This is an extension of my previous blog relating a ship's power system to a microgrid - interconnected loads (propulsion, C4ISR, propulsion and auxiliary) and distributed energy resources (power generation, distribution and energy storage) acting as a controllable entity. I will be describing a layman’s perspective on digital engineering as it applies microgrid design, building, commissioning, operation and maintenance or lifecycle of a ship.
Topics: Microgrids, C-HIL, controller hardware in the loop, hardware in the loop, HIL, Shipboard Power Systems, Naval Microgrid, Miltary, Navy, Digital Twin
Industry 4.0 is dawning, and digitalization, decarbonization, and decentralization (aka D3) are fueling the electric grid (r)evolution. D3, in turn, creates opportunities for immense value creation, but invokes new technologies and design concepts, and change brings risk.
Topics: Microgrids, inverter controller, controller hardware in the loop, HIL, Resilience, Energy
