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Hardware in the Loop Testing for Power Electronics

Learn about hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing for power electronics applications, such as testing embedded controllers and power converters (leveraging Power-HIL).

Enabling Innovation for Automotive Hardware-in-the-Loop Testing and Control Design

Learn how Speedgoat real-time test solutions, help you to speed up designing and testing automotive control systems.

Hardware-in-the-Loop Testing of Control Algorithms for Modular Multi-Level Converters

Learn how to Test Embedded Controllers for Complex Modular Multi-Level Converters

Electrical Transmission and Distribution

Learn how real-time simulation supports the development, test and maintenance of reliable, cost-efficient, and sustainable power networks and their ancillary services

Advancing Marine Power Systems Using Hardware-in-the-Loop Testing

Discover key challenges for modern shipboard power systems. Learn about Speedgoat / MathWorks' scalable HIL solution for real-time testing and simulation of shipboard power electronics and energy power systems

Full-switching Electric Drive FPGA-based Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulation

Learn how to perform hardware-in-the-loop testing of power electronics controllers, without leaving the MATLAB and Simulink environment.

Speedgoat FPGA I/O modules are used to execute electric drive models with the required resolution and fidelity for simulating high frequency switching dynamics such as current ripple and spatial harmonics. 

Real-Time Testing for Robots and Autonomous Systems

Learn how to test your controllers and control designs for robots and autonomous systems. We will share examples from medical devices, mobile robotics, automated driving, and industrial automation.

Simplify Prototyping and Certification of Medical Control Designs

Learn how you can rapidly design and thoroughly test IEC 62304 compliant control designs with Simulink and Speedgoat test systems 

Innovate and Teach Real-Time Control Designs in Academia

This recorded webinar shows how to simulate and real-time execute Simulink-based control designs and plant simulations with the click on a button, connected to your hardware under control

Motion Control Prototyping and PLC Testing in Automation Industry

Learn how to prototype control designs for motion control applications in industries such as manufacturing, power systems, and building automation.

Hardware-in-the-Loop Testing for Microgrids

Learn Speedgoat and Mathworks’ about the unified real-time solution from Speedgoat and MathWorks for microgrid design, testing and validation using Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) and Power HIL

Enabling Innovation for Automotive HIL Testing and Control Design

This recorded webinar presents how you can accelerate innovations in the automotive industry with real-time simulation and testing using Speedgoat solutions.

Hardware-In-Loop Testing of Balance of Plant Controller of Fuel Cell System

Learn how modeling and simulating complete fuel cell stack, balance of power software components and other adjacent systems enables engineers from different domains to collaborate with each other and identify design issues early in the design phase. Thoroughly test controller logic in real-time with hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) test bench using Simulink Real-Time and Speedgoat test system.

Electric Motor Control Webinar Series (2/2): Hardware-in-the-Loop Testing of Electric Motor Control Systems

Learn about real-time solutions accelerate electric motor controls development and testing. By using examples, this two-part webinar series will address topics from controlling and tuning an electric motor to verifying the operation of an electric motor controller against a virtual Motor.

Motor Control Webinar Series (1/2): Rapid Prototyping for Electric Motor Control Designs

Learn about real-time solutions accelerate electric motor controls development and testing. By using examples, this two-part webinar series will address topics from controlling and tuning an electric motor to verifying the operation of an electric motor controller against a virtual Motor.

Fuel Cell Integration for Electrified Propulsion

Explore real-time testing & prototyping solutions for multi-stack fuel cells & battery propulsion systems.

Next Generation Aerospace: Collaborative Simulation and Integration Environments

Learn how you can leverage digital twins and test embedded hardware with Speedgoat HIL simulators for Aerospace applications. Automated and continuous testing of your controllers and controls systems enables you to deliver high-quality systems quickly, and cost-effectively.

Automated and Continuous Hardware-in-the-Loop Testing

Learn about hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing and how to efficiently test controls using Speedgoat and MathWorks’ unified HIL solution.

Design, Simulation and Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) Testing of an Electric Scooter Powertrain

This publication focuses on an algorithm to control a brushless DC motor. A Speedgoat performance machine runs a digital twin of the motor on both the CPU and the FPGA-based I/O module IO334 and is connected via the analog channels to the controller, an MCU by Texas Instruments. With this HIL setup, the performance of the control algorithm was tested. 

Electrification Testing and Certification Workflows in Aerospace

This webinar shows how hardware-in-the-loop testing accelerates testing and certification of more electric or vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircrafts.

Battery Management System Integration into an Electronic Control Module for a Hybrid Electric Aircraft

Th­is article focuses on BMS integration into the electronic control module (ECM) of the FVA 30 hybrid electric motor glider using a Speedgoat real-time target machine. The challenge is to design an ECM for reliable data processing, allowing pilots to monitor and control the drivetrain.

Certification Process for a Hybrid Electric Aircraft

The scientific aviation association (FVA) is developing the FVA 30, a hybrid electric motor glider, to research alternative propulsion systems. This article focuses on the certification process of the FVA 30 power train, using a Speedgoat target computer.

Accelerate Development of Electric Vehicles with Real-time Testing

This webinar presents how real-time testing accelerates innovation of automotive electrification, from electric powertrains and power management systems to high-voltage DC battery chargers. It shows how HIL testing is crucial to de-risk integration testing of electric propulsion and battery management systems.

Assessment of State-of-Charge Estimation Method for Lithium-Ion Batteries

In this paper, a numerical model of lithium-ion batteries is developed and deployed to a Speedgoat Baseline target machine. The estimation method for the state-of-charge (SOC), based on a nonlinear autoregressive with exogenous input (NARX) and artificial neural networks (ANNs) that are correctly trained with multiple datasets, is designed, and experimentally validated by hardware-in-the-loop simulation.

Publication on mdpi.com

Hardware-in-the-Loop Testing (HIL) of State-of-Charge (SoC) Estimation for Li-Ion Batteries

This study presents the design and validation of an SoC estimation method for lithium-ion batteries in hybrid-electric vehicles (HEV). The battery model is deployed on a Speedgoat Baseline machine connected to a Raspberry Pi emulating the ECU based on an artificial neural network for HIL testing. The algorithm can estimate the SoC of the battery with 2% accuracy during real-time testing.