Automated ventilator controllers have the potential to simplify oxygen and carbon dioxide management for trauma. In the pre-hospital or military medicine environment, trauma care can be required for prolonged periods by personnel with limited ventila...
Hemorrhage remains a leading cause of death, with early goal-directed fluid resuscitation being a pillar of mortality prevention. While closed-loop resuscitation can potentially benefit this effort, development of these systems is resource-intensive,...
This article presents the issues related to the operation and modelling of a ship’s main propulsion steam boiler. Such objects are used widely in seagoing ships, especially very large crude oil carriers, as a main propulsion turbine feed. The a...
Integration of renewable energy resources and conventional grids leads to an increase in power quality issues. These power quality issues require different standards to be followed for accurate measurement and monitoring of various parameters of the...
Hemorrhagic shock remains one of the leading causes of preventable death for both civilian and military trauma. Fluid resuscitation is the primary treatment but requires constant monitoring, particularly for volume non-responsive patients susceptible...
This paper presents an integrated framework for aircraft engines, which consists of three phases: modeling, control, and experimental testing. The engine is formulated as an uncertain T–S fuzzy model. By a hierarchical dynamical parameter clust...
The ocean energy resources hold the promise of a sustainable solution within global efforts to diversify energy sources and mitigate climate change. Wave energy conversion (WEC) systems, as emerging technologies, offer adaptability and the potential...
Large-scale solar-powered unmanned aerial vehicles possess the capacity to perform long-term missions at different altitudes from near-ground to near-space, and the huge spatial span brings strict disciplines for its attitude control such as aerodyna...
In this paper, a real-time implementation of a sliding-mode control (SMC) in a hardware-in-loop architecture is presented for a robot with two degrees of freedom (2DOF). It is based on a discrete-time recurrent neural identification method, as well a...
Battery peak power capability estimations play an important theoretical role for the proper use of the battery in electric vehicles. To address the failures in relaxation effects and real-time ability performance, neglecting the battery’s design limi...
For the cooperative operation of networked microgrids, a distributed energy management considering network operational objectives and constraints is proposed in this work. Considering various ownership and privacy requirements of microgrids, utility...
Integrating Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) with Digital Twins (DTs) offers a promising way to transform static system models into dynamic, runtime-connected representations that enable execution, monitoring, and validation. Much current resea...
The design of modern industrial products is further improved through the hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulation. Realistic simulation is enabled by the closed loop between the hardware under test (HUT) and real-time simulation. Such a system involves...
The complexity and shortening of development cycles in the automotive industry, particularly with the rise in hybrid electric vehicle sales, increases the need for efficient calibration and testing methods. Virtualization using hardware-in-the-loop t...
The IEC 61850 standard aims at digitization substations and provides interoperability between various Intelligent Electronic Device vendors. The digitization process is accompanied by several challenges related to data transmission on the ethernet ne...
This article reports the ongoing work on an environment for hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) and software-in-the-loop (SIL) tests of CubeSats and the benefits gained from using such an environment for low-cost satellite development. The satellite tested fo...
Power hardware-in-the-loop (PHiL) simulations provide a powerful environment in the critical process of testing new components and controllers. In this work, we aim to explain the impact of time delays in a PHiL setup and recommend how to consider th...
Trauma and hemorrhage are leading causes of death and disability worldwide in both civilian and military contexts. The delivery of life-saving goal-directed fluid resuscitation can be difficult to provide in resource-constrained settings, such as in...
The fundamental changes in the energy sector, due to the rise of renewable energy resources and the possibilities of the digitalisation process, result in the demand for new methodologies for testing Smart Grid concepts and control strategies. Using...
Hemorrhage is a leading cause of preventable death in trauma, which can often be avoided with proper fluid resuscitation. Fluid administration can be cognitive-demanding for medical personnel as the rates and volumes must be personalized to the traum...
To support NASA’s mission to use nuclear thermal rockets for future Mars missions, an instrumentation and control test bed has been built at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The system is designed as a hardware-in-the-loop test bed for testing co...
Power Hardware-in-the-Loop (PHiL) simulation is an emerging testing methodology of real hardware equipment within an emulated virtual environment. The closed loop interfacing between the Hardware under Test (HuT) and the Real Time Simulation (RTS) en...
For a targeted development process of foot prostheses, a profound understanding of the dynamic interaction between humans and prostheses is necessary. In engineering, an often employed method to investigate the dynamics of mechanical systems is Hardw...
This paper presents an approach to extend the capabilities of smart grid laboratories through the concept of Power Hardware-in-the-Loop (PHiL) testing by re-purposing existing grid-forming converters. A simple and cost-effective power interface, pair...
Simulating complex systems in real time presents both significant advantages and challenges. Hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulation has emerged as an interesting technique for addressing these challenges. While HIL has gained attention in the scientif...
As the performance of digital devices is improving, Hardware-In-the-Loop (HIL) techniques are being increasingly used. HIL systems are frequently implemented using FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Array) as they allow faster calculations and therefore...
The rapid expansion of photovoltaic (PV) generation has increased the need for educational and experimental platforms that allow students and researchers to study the dynamics, control strategies, and power conversion stages of grid-connected PV syst...
The increasing complexity of modern automotive lighting systems requires advanced validation strategies that ensure both functional performance and regulatory compliance. This study presents a structured integration of Software-in-the-Loop (SiL) and...
This study presents a cost-efficient Hardware-in-the-Loop platform for liquid-level process control education, designed to bridge the gap between theoretical learning and real-world industrial practice. The proposed system integrates NI myRIO and NI...
The solid oxide fuel cell–gas turbine (SOFC-GT) hybrid system is confronted with challenges related to system integration and coordinated control. In this study, a Controller Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulation (C-HILS) platform is constructed to v...
The software-in-the-loop and hardware-in-the-loop tests of a battery management system require a real-time compatible electro-thermal battery pack model. In our study, a numerically complex electrochemical-thermal model has been characterized from ex...
In order to simulate a PHEV’s dynamic characteristics with high fidelity and study the degradation process of a PHEV’s power sources in real-world driving conditions, an Internet-distributed hardware-in-the-loop (ID-HIL) simulation platfo...
The increase in number of interplanetary probes has emphasized the need for spacecraft autonomy to reduce overall mission costs and to enable riskier operations without ground support. The perception of the external environment is a critical task for...
Hardware-in-the-loop testing is usually a part of the design cycle of control systems. Efficient and fast models can be created in a Hardware Description Language (HDL), which is implemented in a Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). Control engineer...
The hardware in the loop technologies allow to simulate physical models in combination with real devices in order to validate the behavior of the latter under different conditions, not easily reproducible in the real world. They are widely used in va...
With increasing changes in the contemporary energy system, it becomes essential to test the autonomous control strategies for distributed energy resources in a controlled environment to investigate power grid stability. Power hardware-in-the-loop (PH...
Required functions of a microgrid become divers because there are many possible configurations that depend on the location. In order to effectively implement the microgrid system, which consists of a microgrid controller and components with distribut...
Power hardware-in-the-loop (PHIL) systems are advanced, real-time platforms for combined software and hardware testing. Two paramount issues in PHIL simulations are the closed-loop stability and simulation accuracy. This paper presents a virtual impe...
High production costs and extended development timelines pose significant challenges to the manufacturing of bearingless permanent magnet synchronous motors (BPMSMs). Moreover, uncertainties regarding the motor’s ability to generate suspension...
A hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) experimental test-bench is suggested for a rotodynamic pump in this paper. The HIL simulator is composed of two separate modules and two variable-speed drive (VSD) systems that are connected with the help of a programmabl...
This paper proposes a low-cost on-chip Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) platform for teaching and fast prototyping of dynamic systems. A dual-core digital signal controller (DSC)-based solution is proposed for the HIL system. CPU core A, as the simulation...
Power electronics is a core subject in electrical and electronics engineering at the undergraduate level. The rapid growth in the field of power electronics requires necessary changes in the curricula and practica for power electronics. The proposed...
Reducing costs and time spent in experiments in the early development stages of vehicular technology such as off-road and agricultural semi-autonomous robots could help progress in this research area. In particular, evaluating path tracking strategie...
The smart-grid era is characterized by a progressive penetration of distributed energy resources into the power systems. To ensure the safe operation of the system, it is necessary to evaluate the interactions that those devices and their associated...
The hardware in the loop (HIL) technique allows you to reproduce the behavior of a dynamic system or part of it in real time. This quality makes HIL a useful tool in the controller validation process and is widely used in multiple areas including pho...
This paper details the design and implementation of a virtualized bottle sealing plant using the Hardware in the Loop technique, for which it is divided into two parts: (i) Software consists of a virtualized environment in Unity 3D to visualize its b...
This paper presents a methodology for embedding coupled electromagnetic–thermal finite element (FE) models into a hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) platform to enable real-time prototyping of control strategies for advanced heating systems. The framew...
The paper presents a framework to emulate spacecraft orbits using GNSS hardware in the loop that enables the evaluation of new orbital positioning algorithms. The framework software generates the spacecraft orbit and the GNSS signals, including the m...
This paper presents the design and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) experimental validation of a data-driven estimation method for the state of charge (SOC) in the lithium-ion batteries used in hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs). The considered system feature...
In order to solve the testing and verification problems at the early development stage of a high-speed Maglev positioning and speed measurement system (MPSS), a hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulation platform is presented, which includes induction loo...
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