Real-time PC-based simulator of electric systems and drives

Abstract

This paper presents a novel computer-based tool for real-time simulation and rapid control prototyping of power electronic systems and drives. The tool consists of innovative algorithmic software (ARTEMIS/sup TM/) for the fixed-time-step simulation of stiff electric circuits, and a real-time laboratory package (RT-LAB/sup TM/) for the execution of a Simulink/sup TM/ block diagram and circuits over a cluster of PCs, for fully digital real-time simulation or hardware-in-the-loop applications.