Power Hardware-In-the-Loop (PHIL), EtherCAT Protocol, by Triphase and OPAL-RT

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Carl Bisaillon
OPAL-RT
carl.bisaillon@opal-rt.com
Power Hardware-In-the-Loop (PHIL)
EtherCAT Protocol
Piet Vanassche
TRIPHASE
piet.vanassche@triphase.com

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TRIPHASE EtherCAT amplifier solution
o Introduction of TRIPHASE
o Description of the product / Solution
o Benefits & Features
Join Hands-on Demonstration
o Power Hardware-In-the-Loop with EtherCAT networking
OPAL-RT presentation
o Introduction of partnership with TRIPHASE
o OP5600 product and EtherCAT solution
o Benefits, Features and Accomplishments on the EtherCAT PHIL
OPAL-RT road map
o Future for OPAL-RT and TRIPHASE in their partnership
Q & A
Workshop plan

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About Triphase

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About Triphase
Founded in 2006,
Spin-off from the
University of Leuven,
World-wide customer
base
Solutions for Rapid
Prototyping and Power
Hardware-in-the Loop Testing
Boost innovation in the
fields of power electronics and
power systems

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Products and Solutions
PC-based Rapid Control Prototyping of single
and multi-converter applications

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Products and Solutions
PC-based Rapid Control Prototyping of single
and multi-converter applications
20 kHz real-time
control

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Products and Solutions
Reprogrammable power amplifiers and
measurements for power-hardware-
in-the-loop simulations

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Products and Solutions for PHIL simulations
PHIL = +
virtual
models
physical
models
+
=

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Products and Solutions for PHIL Simulations
Real-time simulation and
control unit
General purpose I/O
Real-Time Ethernet
5, 15 and 90 kW power modules with
FPGA-based interface
High-speed voltage &
current measurements
PM5, PM15 and PM90
power amplifiers
DPM75, DPM350
power measurements

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Products and solutions
Power Grid Emulation
Grid Support
Aircraft Grid Emulation
Battery Testing
Battery Emulation
Fuel Cell Emulation
Microgrids
4Q Motor Drives
E-Motor Simulation

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Products and Solutions
250 - 400 µs response times
0.05 - 0.3% THD

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DPM75
OP5600
PHIL Demo - Emulated Capacitive Discharge
PM5F21
Predistortion
Ha(s)
VSP+ZS(s)I
SIMULATOR
Reference Simulation
Observer
POWER MODULE
VS
P
Local, fast
control

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• Up to 12 3.3GHz processor cores
• Real-time adapted Red Hat Linux OS
• Xilinx Spartan-3 or Virtex-6 FPGA
• CPU model sample time down to 7µs
• FPGA chip sample time down to 250ns
• Up to 8 IO signals conditionning cards
o 16 fast analog converters (16-bit precision)
o32 DIO with 50 ns latency
OP5600

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• Developped by EtherCAT Technology Group (ETG)
• A single data frame addressing all slaves in a
daisy-chain fashion
• Small amount of data exchanged with low cycle times
• OPAL-RT’s OP5600 as EtherCAT Master only
• Approximate delay of 150ns between terminals
• Sampling frequency from 10Hz to 4kHz
• Equivalent to time-step between 250µs and 100ms
EtherCAT: A real-time digital network

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• Permits to drive many slow
devices with a control loop
in the milliseconds
o Relays, contact switches, etc.
• Provides a large number of
industrial sensors
o Analog and digital IOs, relays,
encoders, etc.
• Use of Standard Ethernet cables
Benefits, features and accomplishments

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With more and more reasearches coming together, it was decided, a couple of
months ago, by both OPAL-RT and Triphase management personnel to forge
ahead with a closer full digital integration of respective companies products.
Future for OPAL-RT and Triphase

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Questions and Contacts
Carl Bisaillon, Eng. Jr.
Application Specialist
carl.bisaillon@opal-rt.com
www.opal-rt.com
Tel: 1-514-935-2323 ext 357
Fax: 1-514-935-4994

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PM5 PM15 PM90
● AC/DC, DC/DC and Motion
control
● Fully bidirectional
● Include measurements and
safety features
● Digital real-time interface
● Modular approach enabling
wide variety of configurations
● Powerful simulator for large system simulation
● Simple setup of PHIL experiments
● Low-latency, full digital integration
● High-resolution data logging
Real-time voltage &
current measurements
available in model
through digital link