Virtual prototyping of universal control architecture systems by means of processor in the loop technology

Francis, G.; Burgos, Rolando; Rodriguez, P.; Wang, F.; Boroyevich, Dushan; Liu, R.; Monti, Antonello

doi:10.1109/apex.2007.357491

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“…A variation to hardware-in-the-loop testing is the case where only the actual processor is used during testing and rest of the hardware and environment are simulated. This variation is referred to as processor-in-the-loop testing [17].…”

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Environment modeling and simulation for automated testing of soft real-time embedded software

2013

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Given the challenges of testing at the system level, only a fully automated approach can really scale up to industrial real-time embedded systems (RTES). Our goal is to provide a practical approach to the model-based testing of RTES by allowing system testers, who are often not familiar with the system's design but are application domain experts, to model the system environment in such a way as to enable its black-box test automation. Environment models can support the automation of three tasks: the code generation of an environment simulator to enable testing on the development platform or without involving actual hardware, the selection of test cases, and the evaluation of their expected results (oracles). From a practical standpoint-and such considerations are crucial for industrial adoption-environment modeling should be based on modeling standards (1) that are at an adequate level of abstraction, (2) that software engineers are familiar with, and (3) that are well supported by commercial or open source tools. In this paper, we propose a precise environment modeling methodology fitting these requirements and discuss how these models can be used to generate environment simulators. The environment models are expressed using UML/MARTE and OCL, which are international standards for real-time systems and constraint modeling. The presented techniques are evaluated on a set of three artificial problems and on two industrial RTES.

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Environment modeling and simulation for automated testing of soft real-time embedded software

2013

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“…PIL is a technique for a rapid prototyping when mathematic model is running in real-time, the control system is running on the target platform [2].…”

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Application of PIL Approach for Automated Transportation Center

Ožana

Pies

Hajovsky

et al. 2014

Computer Information Systems and Industrial Management

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Abstract. The paper describes the idea of design and implementation of Processor-in-the-loop (PIL) model of Automated Transportation Center (ATC) designed as a heavy laboratory operated by VSB-Technical University of Ostrava. It contains technical description of the real technology, the main concept of PIL model and its particular solution for ATC. As for means of design and implementation, the REX Control system was used as a real-time target running on ALIX system board that handles the software model of real technology while the real control system based on Simatic PLCs stays unchanged. The communication between PLCs and ALIX is provided by PROFINET protocol while all of the original I/O signals are re-mapped to match the PROFINET communication standard.

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“…Specifically, the method proposed in [9] simulates the converter power stage using Virtual Test Bed and controls it using the actual converter digital controller, with an FPGA control system interfaced through the PCI bus of the host computer. However, these tools generate automatically the VHDL code and thus no architecture optimization is possible [9,10]. In our approach, by using existing methodology [13], we developed an improved VHDL-AMS-based design flow for an optimised digital control design of a power electronics application.…”

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“…As far as Power Electronic applications are concerned, similar design approaches for fully digital control could be considered [7,8,9,10]. High-level analysis of a multidisciplinary system, functional validation at any design step, top-down design approach, simulation at various levels of abstraction and final physical design are the necessary tasks that need to be carried out to design well and optimise the digital controller till its final physical implementation.…”

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Design of a fully digital controller for a shunt three-phase active filter using VHDL-AMS language

Jovanovic¹,

Poure²,

Saadate³

et al. 2008

International Journal of Electronics

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In this paper, authors detail a Top-down design methodology for Power Electronic fully digital controller based on a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). This design flow uses the VHDL-AMS language. The case of a shunt threephase active filter is studied. An optimised architecture is designed and each step is detailed. Each block of the architecture is modelled in the VHDL at several levels of abstraction, from real data format to specific binary format. To achieve closed loop simulation, analogue and power elements are modelled in the VHDL-AMS. The whole closed loop system is successfully validated at various levels of abstraction of the digital control, using the ADVanceMS Computer Aided Design tools. An experimental validation of the proposed architecture, implemented on the target Xilinx Virtex-II 2V4000bf95 FPGA is discussed.

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Virtual prototyping of universal control architecture systems by means of processor in the loop technology

Cited by 11 publications

References 9 publications

Environment modeling and simulation for automated testing of soft real-time embedded software

Environment modeling and simulation for automated testing of soft real-time embedded software

Application of PIL Approach for Automated Transportation Center

Design of a fully digital controller for a shunt three-phase active filter using VHDL-AMS language

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