Using Cost Effective Distributed HIL for Rapid Prototyping (1)

Key Takeaways Understand how Hardware-in-Loop HIL simulation and testing can be useful in your smart product development process  Identify product development where HIL is beneficial

Using Cost Effective

Distributed HIL for Rapid Prototyping

Enabling Smart Solutions

Innovation using HIL Simulation

 Simulation Architecture must include

 Smart hardware capabilities include

Hardware-In-Loop (HIL) with Renesas and ADI

Renesas provides the MCU families to integrate easily into your smart

products and your Hardware-In-Loop (HIL) test facilities.

Applied Dynamics

International (ADI) has

been supplying HIL

Smart Technologies require …

Simulators

 What is HIL, Distributed HIL and Rapid Prototyping?

Agenda

Key Takeaways

 Understand how Hardware-in-Loop ( HIL ) simulation and testing can be useful in your smart product development process

 Identify product development where HIL is beneficial

 List tool characteristics that enable HIL integration and test

 Highlights of the HIL demo using Model Based Design (MBD), Virtualization

& Hardware in the Loop (HIL)

What is HIL?

Simulation – uses technology to provide an experience within an

environment that is representative of the “real thing”

Hardware-in-Loop (HIL) – uses simulation and real hardware

components to provide an “identical” experience to the “real thing”

NASA Ames

Real-time HIL Simulation Applications: Test and Rapid-Prototyping

Stimulate

Monitor Response

Open-loop Testing

Real-time Simulator

Scenarios

Monitor Response

Closed-loop Testing

Real-time Simulator

Stimulate

Monitor Response

Rapid Prototyping

Real-time Simulator

System Test Bench

System Testing without the System

The system test bench starts with model-based simulation Models can consist of:

System Test Bench

System Testing without the System

The system test bench includes the Embedded Control System :

System Test Bench Benefits

System Testing without the System

The system test bench provides the platform for:

And the benefits:

smart solutions

System Test Bench HIL

System Testing without the System

The virtual system test bench integrates with the HIL

Simulation System by reusing the assets from the based development

Model-System Test Bench HIL

System Testing without the System

HIL brings process improvement by adding:

Process Improvements using HIL Simulation

HIL Simulation provides the bottom-line process improvements

to testing and life-cycle support:

Real-time HIL as Risk Reduction Platform

Risk reduction facilities where software and hardware can be

developed, integrated, tested and evaluated prior to being fielded

Distributed HIL uses subsystems at varying stages to create an early system integration lab

 100% Successful 1ST Missions

 Standard Validation Platform

 Fly Spacecraft on the Ground

 Satellite Emulator

Boeing Satellite Development Center

Gulfstream Aerospace

 75% Test Time Reduction

 ITF and ARDL

Real-time HIL as Risk Reduction Platform

Proven cases where HIL Simulation provide industry with

identifiable risk reduction:

damaging costly equipment)

extreme environments (using simulated terrain and temperatures instead of extremes of desert or mountains)

by easy insertion and connection into existing test configurations

University of Michigan ARC has current research and experiments using Internet-Distributed HIL (ID-HIL) Principal Investigator: Tulga Ersal , UofM,

http://arc.engin.umich.edu/rsrch/rsrch1_2.html

The Automotive Research Center (ARC)

Goal: Evaluate a novel hybrid

power management strategy by

integrating the engine and battery

testing facilities at the University

of Michigan

Case Study Team includes:

ID-HIL Hardware Resources

Walter E Lay Automotive Laboratory

Battery Testing Laboratory

Engine Testing Laboratory Driver Interface

ID-HIL Selecting Coupling Points

Battery Testing Laboratory

Engine Testing Laboratory Driver Interface

ID-HIL Selecting Coupling Points

Battery Testing Laboratory

Engine Testing Laboratory Driver Interface

ID-HIL Selecting Coupling Points

Engine Testing Laboratory Driver Interface

HIL Modular Simulation Tools

 ADI delivers modern, open architecture, scalable tools for the development and test of embedded controls electronics that:

HIL Modular Simulation supports

 Real-time simulation models and hardware for device emulation

 Real-time simulation plant models

 Easy transition from emulated embedded system to actual embedded processor and code in the loop

HIL Modular Simulation includes

HIL Modular Simulation - PCI-Engine

PCI-Engine is an innovative tool

for the design, development

and acceptance testing of

engine control units (ECU)

PCI-Engine emulates an

8-cylinder engine with signal

measurement and

generation that is

crank-based and time-crank-based.

I/O Considerations

ADI’s PCI-Engine is a specialized PCI solution providing engine signal emulation including the hall effect sensors

HIL Demonstration

Real-Time Simulator

8-Cylinder Simulink Engine

CAN throttle position sensor

Battery voltage power moding

Hall effect cam emulation Hall effect crank emulation

Engine Controller

B r e a k o u

t

P a n e l

ADI rtX HIL System

ECU Testing with Emulated Engine

• ECU control algorithm effectiveness

• Response time and control stability

Test ECU’s recognition of an event and the appropriateness of the ECU response

• Simple as a set of potentiometers and switches

• ECU response is measured to determine that it is within tolerance

• Multiple input events to ECU may be generated simultaneously

HIL Modular Simulation - PCI-Engine

 ADI’s sensor emulation technology developed for HIL

applications includes sensors and emulated devices

 Model-based integration testing of stand-alone

functionality and subsystem interoperability

 Rapid Prototyping

 Plant model with control algorithm development using a

Embedded Control Systems need

Questions?