Improving the Stability of the Battery Emulator – Pulsed Current Load Interface in a Power Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulation

Nikolaos Daniil, David Drury

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Abstract

Replacing a battery pack with a battery emulator (BE) in a Power Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulation (HILS) setup facilitates the testing of new prototype hardware but stability and high fidelity are not a priori ensured. Due to the large output capacitance that devices implementing BEs usually have, their dynamic response differs compared to a real battery which operates like a voltage source with a series resistance. This problem becomes particularly intense when the hardware under test (HUT) also has a large input capacitance. The intuitive solution proposed is to connect a series resistor between the BE and the HUT to replicate the battery series resistance. This paper describes the conditions that this resistor needs to follow in order to ensure stability. It is also shown that the limited bandwidth of the power device used to implement the BE is possible to bring the emulation into stability even if those conditions are violated. Finally, examples are given on how a low sampling frequency in the feedback loop cause oscillations. Simulations and experiments are used to demonstrate all the findings.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIECON 2016 - 42nd Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society
Subtitle of host publicationProceedings of a meeting held 23-26 October 2016, Florence, Italy
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Pages2064-2069
Number of pages6
ISBN (Print)9781509037469
DOIs
Publication statusE-pub ahead of print - 22 Dec 2016
EventIEEE IECON 2016 - Florence, Italy
Duration: 24 Oct 201627 Oct 2016

Publication series

NameProceedings of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON)
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
ISSN (Print)1553-572X

Conference

ConferenceIEEE IECON 2016
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityFlorence
Period24/10/1627/10/16

Keywords

  • Power Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulation
  • battery emulation
  • stability
  • current feedback
  • voltage feedback

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