5th International Energy Conversion Engineering Conference and Exhibit (IECEC) · 2007 · 14 citations · 10 references
EngineeringAerospace SimulationReal-time System DesignSimulationEmbedded SystemsPower ElectronicsCo-simulationControl SystemsAerospace SystemsSystems EngineeringModeling And SimulationPower System ControlLoop SimulationPower SystemsAerospace Electric PowerHardware-in-the-loop SimulationReal-time HardwareComputer EngineeringReal-time SimulationReal-time SimulatorAerospace EngineeringAerospace Power SystemsFlight Control SystemsCircuit Simulation
(Abstract) This paper presents new results obtained with a real-time simulator for aerospace power systems capable of hardware in the loop simulation. This means that the model under test runs in real-time in the simulator and it can drive and receive signals from a real system through its analog and digital interfaces. The simulator uses low cost reconfigurable computing infrastructure (e.g. embedded processors and FPGAs) and it is capable of having simulation steps on the order of 0.4 microseconds, that is suitable to represent typical modern aerospace power systems. As an example, we realize the simulation of a sequential switching shunt series regulator (S4R) system using Matlab/Simulink and compare it to the results produced by the FPGA based simulator.
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