System Level Real-Time Simulation and Hardware-in-the-Loop Testing of MMCs

In this paper we present an approach for real-time simulation and Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) testing of Modular Multilevel Converters (MMCs) that rely on switching models while supporting system level analysis. Using the Latency Based Linear Multistep Compound (LB-LMC) approach, we achieved a 50 ns...

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Published in:Energies (Basel) 2021-06, Vol.14 (11), p.3046
Main Authors: Difronzo, Michele, Biswas, Md Multan, Milton, Matthew, Ginn, Herbert L., Benigni, Andrea
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Accuracy
Converters
Field programmable gate arrays
Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs)
Hardware-in-the-loop simulation
Latency
Modular Multilevel Converters (MMCs)
parallel algorithms
power system simulation
Real time
real-time systems
Simulation
switching converters
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