Hybrid and Electric Vehicle

Opal-RT has applied pioneering high-fidelity simulation technologies for electrified powertrain simulation projects around the globe.  Providing a low-cost compliment to dyno testing, Opal-RT HIL benches are deployed at most automotive OEMs and their suppliers for electric drive & controller development. 

Solutions for Hybrid and Electric Vehicle Simulation

 eDRIVEsim Electric Motors, Drives, and Power Electronics High Fidelity Hardware in the Loop (HIL) and ECU Testing
eDRIVEsim® is an advanced real-time, hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulator designed for Electronic Control Unit (ECU) testing of motor drives, power electronics, and electromechanical systems. eDRIVEsim can run full motor simulation with a very small step size under 10 microseconds, enabling the simulation of high rotational speeds and switching frequencies. For ultra-low timestep and latency, eDRIVEsim uses FPGA co-processor as real-time target to achieve simulation time steps under one (1 µs) microsecond.
 Fast and Reliable Implementation of High Precision Motor Models for Real-Time HIL Applications with RT-LAB.JMAG

With Opal-RT's RT-LAB.JMAGTM toolbox, users can readily use commercialy available finite element motor models and put them in the real-time environment. This means tremendous time saving, as well as high-precision modelling, in real-time. Models can run on a CPU or on FPGA for higher performance.

 RT-XSG

RT-XSG enables engineers to generate custom, application specific models that can be implemented onto an FPGA device. Signal conditioning and conversion modules are also available that enable the custom model to be used for Real-Time Simulation, and Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) data processing.

Note: RT-XSG software requirements can be found in the RT-XSG User Guide accessible from the documentation tab.

PHIL: Solutions for Power Electronic System and electrical motor emulator

  • OPAL-RT supplies complete and fully integrated PHIL solutions capable to emulate real load on power converters form a few kW to 100 kW using four quatrain amplifiers, R-L coupling modules and sensors interface with high-speed FPGA based OPAL-RT simulators. The solution are ideal to test new devices under very realistic operating condition under full current loading and faults.
    • Emulation of AC and DC motor loads to test DC-AC, DC-DC, AC-AC or AC-DC converters
    • Emulation of active loads for fuel cells, super capacitors
    • Charging equipement for plug-in hybrid
    • APPLICATIONS AND DEMO