Special Solutions

Controllab can provide special purpose HIL simulators.

High Speed Simulators

Windows is a not a real-time operating system. With special care it can be used for general purpose HIL simulators. In some cases this is not good enough:

• The control system runs at high speeds ( > 100 Hz).
• The plant model only runs well at high simulation speeds.
• Too much jitter (time delay between control system and plantmodel) will make the system unstable.

Controllab can provide a HIL simulator based on a PC with Real-Time Linux, which allows communication with a fieldbus at high speeds (> 5 kHz) and has low jitter (< 0.1 ms).

Bachmann M1

The Bachmann M1 PLC supports the running of ANSI C-code. Users of this PLC have the option to run the plant model as C-code directly on the controller. The plant model can be connected with the control system by sharing SVI variables. This allows direct testing of the control system without additional hardware.