Hardware-in-the-Loop

& Power Hardware-in-the-Loop test platform

Available services

Hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing of electrical protection and control devices including:

  • protection relays
  • phasor measurement unit (PMU)
  • intelligent electronic device (IED)
  • converter control systems Modular Multi-level Converter (MMC)
  • Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems
  • Etc.

Power Hardware-in-the-loop (PHIL) tests of high-voltage equipment components or subsystems, scaled-down models of equipment.

Small scale mock-ups of MMC, DC/DC converters or Direct Current Circuit Breaker (DCCB) deployed to develop new control algorithms using Rapid Control Prototyping (RCP) systems.

Added value

• Expertise in:

  • HVDC and offshore windfarms
  • PHIL and small-scale mock-ups development
  • RCP and IED prototyping
  • HYPERSIM and FPGA simulation

• Partnership with Opal-RT

• Test in closed loop of control and protection systems with a realistic representation of the network and its components

• Rapid prototyping reduce development cost and time

• MMC control validation test bench & routine tests for MMC manufacturers

• MMC control assessment and validation before real life deployment for transmission system operators

• HIL testing allows to increase the TRL of new control & protection algorithms and devices

• PHIL testing allows to increase the TRL of new power equipment (converters, breakers…)

• Real-time simulation reinforces academic publications

Our test platforms