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

Michele Difronzo, Md Multan Biswas, Matthew Milton, Herbert L. Ginn and Andrea Benigni
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Michele Difronzo: College of Engineering and Computing, University of South Carolina, 301 Main St., Columbia, SC 29208, USA
Md Multan Biswas: College of Engineering and Computing, University of South Carolina, 301 Main St., Columbia, SC 29208, USA
Matthew Milton: College of Engineering and Computing, University of South Carolina, 301 Main St., Columbia, SC 29208, USA
Herbert L. Ginn: College of Engineering and Computing, University of South Carolina, 301 Main St., Columbia, SC 29208, USA
Andrea Benigni: Chair of Methods for Simulating Energy Systems, RWTH-Aachen University, 52062 Aachen, Germany

Energies, 2021, vol. 14, issue 11, 1-22

Abstract: 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 simulation time step for systems composed of several MMC converters and for converters of various complexity. To facilitate system level testing, we introduce the use of a serial communication-based (Aurora) interface for HIL testing of MMC converters and we analyzed the effect that communication latency has on the accuracy of the HIL test. The simulation and HIL results are validated against an MMC laboratory prototype.

Keywords: Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs); switching converters; Modular Multilevel Converters (MMCs); parallel algorithms; real-time systems; power system simulation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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