Assessing Military Microgrid Effectiveness through Real-Time/FPGA Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) Testing

Abstract

To advance the development of tactical microgrid standards, stability and control studies rely heavily on extensive computer simulation, on experiments including when possible hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing, and on the development of suitable control systems to manage these tasks in real applications. To enable Controller-hardware-in-the-loop (CHIL) testing of microgrid controllers in development, The University of Texas at Austin Center for Electromechanics acquired a National Instruments field-programmable gate array (FPGA) cluster to work in conjunction with an existing real-time simulator. This allows the controls designer to achieve a faster, and more cost effective, understanding of in-field controller behavior before progressing to full scale HIL testing.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 14, 2017
Accession Number
AD1059247

Entities

People

  • Shannon Strank

Organizations

  • University of Texas at Austin

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Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Algorithms
  • Computer Simulations
  • Control Systems
  • Data Acquisition
  • Department Of Defense
  • Energy
  • Energy Storage
  • Engineering
  • Environment
  • Field Programmable Gate Arrays
  • Mathematics
  • Military Operations
  • Military Research
  • Power Converters
  • Power Electronics
  • Power Equipment
  • Simulations
  • Simulators
  • Standards
  • Test Beds
  • Test Equipment

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  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Research Science/Academic Research
  • Robotics and Automation.

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics
  • Microelectronics - Microelectromechanical Systems