Webinars

As global economies advance aiming on more sustainable development, governmental policies in the transportation sector and vehicle industry push towards the adoption of all-electric powered vehicles. In this webinar, join CERTI Foundation as they present their recent project successes and on-going developments in the e-Mobility space and discuss how HIL design, testing, and validation has accelerated their time to market.

Reliable high-power charging is vital to providing support for wider adoption of battery electric vehicles (EVs), both in the passenger and commercial segments. Join our panel of experts from Fraunhofer ISE and Typhoon HIL for a discussion about how model-based engineering tools are being utilized to empower agile control development and testing. See first-hand how electric vehicles supply equipment (EVSE) is tested using hardware-in-the-loop (HIL).

As the rising global demand and adoption for electric vehicles (EVs) continues to accelerate, companies are facing increased pressures to bring efficient, high performing, low-cost, easy to manufacture, and reliable powertrains to market. Join our panel of experts from Infineon Technologies, Infinitum, and Typhoon HIL for a discussion about streamlined solution-based approaches for designing, testing, verifying, and validating electric vehicle motor drives control systems.

Battery Management Systems (BMS) are the heart of Electric Vehicle (EV) powertrains and are critical for ensuring performance, safety, longevity, accuracy, and efficient battery operation. With ever increasing power and energy densities combined with fast time to market requirement, there is an increasing demand for a more streamlined and fully automated testing processes in every phase of the product lifecycle — from early development to system integration. In this webinar, hear from Typhoon HIL and academic experts how to address BMS challenges in the constantly evolving EV market for companies developing and integrating the current state of the art battery systems.

Electric vehicles (EVs) are crucial for paving the road for a zero-emissions future in the transport sector. Inside EVs, the electric powertrain is a centerpiece comprising the electric motor, inverter, on-board charger, and battery pack. However, testing and integrating automotive electronic control units (ECU) in EV powertrains is a challenging, time-demanding, and costly process. The EV Powertrain Software Testing Re-imagined webinar series will showcase how to reliably test and integrate automotive ECUs in an electric powertrain under all the operating conditions with controller Hardware-in-the-Loop testing. Moreover, you can learn how to fully automate the testing procedure in every phase of the product lifecycle, from early development to after product release.

In this webinar, Justin Smith – a Power Systems Protection and Control expert – will join the Typhoon HIL team to discuss the difficulties related to protection testing on today’s increasingly complex grids with high penetration of power electronics based distributed generation. They will go over use cases on how to verify and validate protection relay settings and coordination and on how test the entire protection layer against different fault scenarios for both utility tied and islanded operation of microgrids.

The increasing number of distributed energy resources (DERs) across the electrical grid has been driving the protection and control complexity to levels not seen before. In this webinar, the AES Brazil and CERTI Foundation present their developments on a microgrid controller design and discuss how HIL testing has accelerated their project.

Today’s microgrid control solutions are faced with a challenge of controlling an ever-increasing number of DERs which individual actions needs to be tightly harmonized in order to achieve the desired operational goals and ensure stable system operation under all conditions. At the same time, such solutions should be easy to configure and commission. HIL validation platform able to provide detailed DER models and realistic fieldbus interfaces at a large-scale can play an important role in rapid deployment of such control solutions.

The two most challenging Hardware in the Loop (HIL) testing applications in the Electric Vehicle (EV) domain are motor drives and battery chargers. Developing and testing control software for these power converters are challenging due to: high switching frequency, new wide-bandgap semiconductors, highly nonlinear motors, new topologies, and their safety critical role. In this webinar, learn why it is necessary to use high-fidelity plant models able to capture all the relevant real-world phenomena in order to conduct comprehensive HIL testing of EV power electronics controllers under all the operating conditions, including faults.

ETAP is a full spectrum analytical engineering software specializing in the analysis, simulation, monitoring, control, optimization, and automation of electrical power systems. ETAP electrical engineering software offers the best and most comprehensive suite of integrated power system enterprise solution. In this webinar, learn more about the capabilites that can be achieved through the integration of ETAP and Typhoon HIL solutions.

Integrating energy storage and renewable energy into a microgrid can be tricky. In this webinar, you’ll learn the proper way to add sustainable assets and battery energy storage systems (BESS) to your microgrid.

Starting from an IEEE 4-node test feeder, we will build, test, and demonstrate a simple microgrid model consisting of an energy storage module (ESM), a photovoltaic (PV) power source, natural gas genset, variable load with load profile, and other components. Protection will also be discussed. A simple microgrid controller monitors the system, ensuring grid-tied/islanding operation, and other system-level functions. A test framework (Typhoon Test IDE) is shown as an effective tool for simple and scalable functional testing of DER and system-wide behavior.

New Machine Models. Expanded Microgrid Library. Learn about the key features of the software release with demos showing spatial harmonics PMSM, IM with interturn short circuit fault modeling and more.

In this webinar hosted by the IEEE Joint IAS/PELS Student Branch Chapter at NUS, learn how to use hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) technology for design and simulation of grid-tied converters.

With the growing demands and ever evolving control design and testing requirements in the Automotive Industry, Powersys and Typhoon HIL have joined forces to provide a complete design and test solution to electric and hybrid vehicle manufacturers to speed up the development cycles, reduce cost of development, and improve quality. The solution bridges the gap between the motor design on one side, and control design and testing on the other side. In this webinar we will demonstrate the complete design workflow that starts in JMAG FEM motor design software and seamlessly flows into controller design and testing in the Typhoon HIL Hardware-in-the-Loop platform.

High switching frequency converters, new wide-bandgap semiconductors, and new topologies are fueling the need for next generation controllers that are demanding HIL testing with ever smaller simulation time steps and higher model fidelity (including nonlinearities, spatial harmonics etc.). The good news is that the 4th generation HIL is delivering the unprecedented model fidelity needed for the most advanced motor drives and automotive power electronics applications. This webinar will show our new HIL404 Technical Features, nonlinear machine modeling, real-time converter power losses simulation, JMAG-RT Integration and Dual Active Bridge demo.

Due to the COVID-19 virus situation all around the world, and lock-down of most universities, academia has to switch to online teaching methods. This webinar will explain how HIL Academy can help power electronics educators teach students online with powerful digital e-learning materials.

This webinar covers the seamless workflow between PSIM’s offline simulation and code generation and Typhoon HIL’s real-time hardware-in-the-loop simulation. The tight integration will solve key challenges related to converter controls design and testing throughout the entire product lifecycle, from early controls design (PSIM) stage to real-time verification and testing (Typhoon HIL). Watch this webinar to see two case studies that demonstrate the worksflow.

Technology has matured to enable the integration of renewable generation into the electric grid. Consequently, power electronics will play a key role in the renovation of the existing electric network. Systems operators frequently update grid codes to ensure power quality and grid security. Consequently, power converter manufacturer have to design reliable products with reduced time-to-market in a competitive environment. To address these challenges, the development teams of GEPOC-UFSM and Typhoon HIL have joined efforts to demonstrate the potential of test-driven design. Learn more in this webinar.

A typical three-phase PV inverter is designed to operate under balanced grid voltage conditions. At low voltage distribution grid, beyond utility power meters, grid imbalance conditions can be often found. Under these circumstances, a typical three-phase PV inverter with conventional control exhibits poor performance resulting in potential loss of power, long term reliability issue due to power oscillations in the DC bus as well as overloading and tripping. This webinar presents how to optimal control a three-phase PV inverter under grid voltage unbalance.

Designing and developing power converters and motor drives that use digital control is becoming increasingly complex with faster design iterations required. Therefore, a tight integration between offline simulation, digital control implementation, and hardware testing is required. The next evolution in tools combines PSIM, Typhoon-HIL, & the PE-Expert4 development system. Each tool represents a company that specializes in a specific role rather than one company that does all three with a lower degree of performance. In this webinar this tight integration between these three platforms is being demonstrated using a PMSM motor drive and a multi-level inverter case study.

How does model-based system engineering – in particular ultra-high-fidelity Hardware in the Loop (HIL) digital twins – significantly de-risk and accelerate projects, eliminate microgrid control integration and interoperability issues, and deliver improved functionality and resilience? Watch the recorded webinar panel discussion to learn more.

Grid codes aren’t sexy. Automate testing of smart grid converter functions for grid code compliance. It is increasingly difficult to test megawatt-scale inverters due to huge investments and safety concerns attributed to full-scale voltage and current level testing. Moreover, constantly evolving grid code requirements demand more detailed testing and faster time to market for distributed energy resources (DER) vendors and system integrators. Watch this webinar to learn more from our guest speakers from Sandia National Laboratory and the Austrian Institute of Technology.

Watch the recording of this high-level webinar portraying the journey of Hardware-in-the-Loop testing over the last three decades from primary use in automotive and aerospace to widespread use in all major technological fields including power electronics and power systems.

This webinar presents Typhoon HIL’s new TyphoonTest framework, showing how we are leveraging Python and open-source to bring a powerful tool to be used to verify your power system/electronics systems. To showcase the power and ease of use of TyphoonTest, example tests are being demonstrated, from very basic tests to real applications such as speed control for drives and ride-through functionalities for solar inverters.

In this webinar, learn how to employ hardware in the loop technology in variable speed drive applications from design to test automation.

In this webinar, we examine the most important control modes of the Woodward easYgen including frequency control, load control, and breaker management. We also show how remote breaker operator LS5 can enhance microgrid functionality; finally, we demonstrate how energy storage inverter can enhance genset operation especially during load swing and fault events. This webinar moderated by Edwin Fonkwe hosts several guest speakers from Woodward Inc.

This webinar demonstrates the benefits of using a microgrid library for HIL modeling. To showcase the advantages, a live demo with a reference microgrid containing a set of the components is being presented and a brief description of the main the components available in the microgrid library will be given.
To exemplify the operation and control of the components, simple unit test models and specific SCADA interfaces will be used. And to finish, another microgrid model capable of islanding and reconnecting controlled by a simulated power management system will be demonstrated.

This webinar discusses the problem of frequency regulation in islanded AC microgrids with no inertia, i.e., those consisting entirely of generators interfaced through power electronics. The control architecture we propose to achieve this is designed to drive the average frequency error to zero while ensuring that the frequency at every bus is equal and that the operating point that results is stable. We also introduce a distributed implementation of the proposed control architecture that relies on a combination of several distributed algorithms. Collectively, these algorithms eliminate the need for a centralized entity with complete knowledge of the network, its topology, or the capabilities or properties of the generators and loads therein. Moreover, the distributed implementation we propose relies on minimal measurements, requiring only that the power injection at each bus be measured.

Energy networks in future naval ships and aircraft have demanding operational requirements, including nonlinear pulse power loads. These loads not only stress the electrical network but also can be a strain on the thermal cooling systems with tight temperature specifications and give rise to interactions and feedback between thermal and electrical subsystems. In addition, the demanding performance requirements can push the system to the edge of stability.

This webinar will introduce the concept of Rapid Control Prototyping. Teaching you step by step and using a 3 phase inverter as the case study. You can be completely confident your design is robust and thoroughly tested for both commercial and academic use. PSIM will be used to simulate and generate a fully defined Code Composer Studio project that will implement the controller on an F28335 processor from Texas Instruments. The control code will be verified with a real-time hardware in loop simulation with a Typhoon-HIL system.

The key element of the emerging Smart Grid is the smart converter. The key feature of the smart converter, on the other hand, is its ability to communicate and co-operate with other smart converters and SCADA systems. That is why SunSpec protocols for universal interoperability are becoming more and more important. In this webinar, you will see the true power and versatility of AIT’s SunSpec-compliant Smart Grid Converter (SGC) control platform. More precisely, you will see how AIT SGC’s full support for SunSpec protocols provides genuine plug-and-play interoperability of diverse DERs, system components, software applications and even financial systems for energy trading.

From real-time power electronics modeling and rapid control prototyping, to effortless runtime controller testing, all the way to grid code pre-certification. We use a three-phase grid-tie battery inverter example to demonstrate a complete controller design flow and highlight, every step of the way, the most important features of the new release of Typhoon HIL software 2016.3.

Discussing how military ideas about energy value and management can help meet evolving civilian challenges.

Save time and money, pre-certify your smart inverter controller for UL1741 SA and California’s updated Rule 21 using controller hardware in the loop. Learn how Hardware in the Loop (HIL) empowers industry leaders to effortlessly test and pre-certify all smart inverter grid support functionalities covered by the updated Rule 21 Phase 1, and emerging UL1741 SA titled “Supplement for Grid Support Utility Interactive Inverters.”

The optimal design of a grid-tied inverter controller can be a long and intimidating process for power electronics engineers as grid codes are continuously evolving. With the proper processes and design and validation tools every power electronics engineer can be 100% confident their design will be ready for the future smart grid.

Smart inverter pre-certification for grid codes: Learn how controller hardware in the loop enables you to pre-certify your inverter’s compliance for various international standards. In this webinar, we will discuss the capabilities of AIT Pre-Certification Toolbox with Georg F. Lauss from the Austrian Institute of Technology.

In this webinar, learn from our guest speaker, Prof. Subhashish Bhattacharya from NC State University and the FREEDM Systems Center, how to use hardware in the loop to develop new smart inverter controllers.

In this webinar, you will get a front-row experience of the AIT Smart Grid Converter (SGC) control platform, featuring 3PH Grid Tie 3L PV inverter application employing the innovative “per unit” control concept and easy-to-use customizable HIL SCADA interface. Watch the webinar and learn how power electronics experts are constantly finding new applications for the Controller Hardware in the Loop paradigm and how it allows you to overcome the challenges of the Smart Grid.

Fast penetration of Distributed Energy Resources (DER) is changing the grid rapidly, on a global scale. With an increasing complexity of international standards and continuously evolving grid codes, there are new challenges for testing power electronics converters. In this webinar, explore with us the challenges, methods, and tools to optimize your control software for power electronics converters to operate in a grid.

This webinar is an introduction into the challenges, methods, and tools to optimize your control software for power electronics converters operating in the changing grid. Watch the video to learn how hardware in the loop simulation techniques are changing the power electronics and power systems industries. We will show you the basics of real-time HIL modeling of a microgrid, including smart inverter modeling, diesel genset modeling, short transmission line modeling and protective relay modeling. We will highlight how distributed energy resources affect one another.