Abstract:
In this paper, real-time hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulation is adopted to augment the development of functional reconfiguration of power electronic building blocks and universal controllers. The simulation environment employs a commercial real-time digital simulator allowing real time simulations of large power systems. Two case studies regarding functional reconfiguration are discussed. The first case is a marine all-electric-ship application to improve system power quality. A novel control algorithm is proposed for an active filter, which is derived from reconfiguring variable speed motor drive. The second case outlines how the HIL simulator is utilized to a static synchronous compensator application where a commercial controller provides firing pulses to a simulated converter and the connected power system. Details of the control scheme, the HIL setup, and test results are given.
W. Ren, L. Qian, Y. Liu, M. Steurer and D. Cartes, "Real time digital simulations augmenting the development of functional reconfiguration of PEBB and universal controller," Proceedings of the 2005, American Control Conference, 2005., Portland, OR, USA, 2005, pp. 2005-2010 vol. 3, doi: 10.1109/ACC.2005.1470264.
KEYWORDS: power electronics, control, real-time simulation, hardware-in-the-loop simulation, all-electric ship