Tetsuhiro Ishikawa

Modern Hardware-In-the-Loop Simulation Technology for Fuel Cell Hybrid Electric Vehicles

Publication date : Oct 2007
Paper File : vppc_paper_f.pdf

Author(s)

Tetsuhiro Ishikawa, Simon Abourida, Jean Bélanger, Christian Dufour,

Abstract

This paper presents technologies designed for Hardware-In-the-Loop testing of modern motor drive systems commonly found in electric vehicles. Deliverable with the RT-LAB simulator comes various motor drive models with different precisions and complexities, from the basic Park two-axis machine models to detailed Finite-Element-Analysis based models. The former is more rapid while the latter is more precise. These models can be implemented on different hardwares, CPU or FPGA. CPU-based implementation rely on well-known ‘C’ code generation techniques and is rather flexible. FPGA implementation breaks through common limitations of CPU-based implementation by allowing much faster analog output rates, higher PWM frequencies and smaller model latencies. An FPGA implementation also allows the user to model fast protection schemes found on commercial drives (ex: over-current protections).

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Advances in Real-Time Simulation of Fuel Cell Hybrid Electric Vehicles

Publication date : Mar 2005
Paper File : 2005_evs21.pdf

Author(s)

Tetsuhiro Ishikawa, Kousuke Uemura, Jean Bélanger, Christian Dufour,

Abstract

This paper describes the RT-LAB real-time simulator implementation of the Hardware-In-the-Loop simulation of a fuel cell hybrid electric vehicle system with several 10 kHz converters. The paper demonstrates the necessity to use special IGBT bridge models that implements interpolation techniques within fixed time step simulation scheme. The paper reports on the latest advances from Opal-RT to simulate this kind of system with a 10 µs sample time.

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