Using HIL and P-HIL for cost effective and reproducible testing of power electronics with OPAL-RT Germany GmbH

Real-time simulation helps accelerate development and derisk early
implementations in the race to transform to e-mobility and
renewables. (Power) hardware-in-the-loop plays an important role.
Among notable current needs is to simulate the new scenarios
presented by grids with converter-driven energy sources, not least
in testing for resonances, or black start conditions. For real-time
simulation - particularly integrating power hardware - this
presents new challenges to balance stability, accuracy, speed, and
scale. Prof. Marco Jung talks to Dr. Ravinder Venugopal, Managing
Director at OPAL-RT Germany, about the issues and approaches (from
parallel processing to solvers and FPGAs) in episode 3 of the"Sound
On. Power On." podcast. The power electronics podcast you’ve been
waiting for – powered by PCIM Europe. They also discuss the future,
with digital twins harnessing live data to improve real-time
simulations, with the support of AI.