Research Equipment

 

SL Series Programmable DC Power Supply

1.5 kW DC power supply used for solar PV emulation.

  

- Conext SW Solar Hybrid Inverter System.

- Conext MPPT 60 150 PV Solar Charge Controller.

- Conext SCP Solar Control Panel.

- Conext ComBox. (Communications and monitoring device).

                   

                  

- FMD88-10 PLC Programmable Logic Controller.

- EG4115 Meter, Data Loger, Server.

HIL Real Time Digital Similator (OP5600)

The OP5600 is a complete simulation system comprising a powerful target computer, a flexible high-speed front-end processor, comprehensive digital and analog I/Os and a signal conditioning stage. With its multiple parallel cores, it has the capacity to run, in real time, elaborate Matlab/Simulink models that can represent a complex physical system, its associated controllers or both.

Signal Conditioning Module Interface (OP8660)

• 6 Pulse Inverter Output DB9 connector used to send control pulses to the motor.
• Encoder Input connector used to read motor speed and position using differential ABZ encoder signals.
• Analog and digital input/output monitoring connectors for each channel (16 analog or 8 digital).
• High current probe connectors (maximum 15 A AC), with red and green LEDs to indicate channel activity.
• High voltage probe connectors (maximum 600 V), with red and green LEDs to indicate channel activity.
• Power switch and ground connector.

OPAL-RT RT-LAB Software

RT-LAB, fully integrated with MATLAB/Simulink, is an open real-time simulation software environment ideal to perform real time simulations and HIL applications. RT-LAB provides tools for running simulations of highly complex models on a network of distributed run-time targets, communicating via ultra low-latency technologies, in order to achieve the required performance.RT-LAB controls synchronization, user interfaces and hardware interfaces using I/O blocks and data exchange to achieve fully transparent, simple and fast distributed operations.

2 kW DFIG Energy Conversion Kit (LabVolt Series)

• Three phase wound rotor induction machine
• Four-Quadrant dynamometer
• Power supply
• IGBT chopper/Inverter
• Line inductors
• Resistive load
• Capacitive load

 

200 W Electric Drive Kit (LabVolt Series)

• AC and DC machines
  • Permanent magnet DC motor
  • PMSM brushless motor
  • S.Q. induction motor
  • Four-Quadrant dynamometer/Power supply

• Power supply
• IGBT chopper/Inverter
• Resistive load
• Lead acid battery

 Solar Panels

• Canadian Solar C26-P-260 W.
• SolarWorld SW80 80 W.

Pitch Controlled Wind Turbine Experiment Workstation

• Wind turbine – five blades.
• DC generator – power generation.
• Servo-motor – pitch angle change.
• DC Motor – blower rotation for wind speed variation.

QUARC – Real-time control software.

Q2-USB and Q8-USB – Data acquisition boards (Digital IO, Analog IO, Encoder).
VoltPAQ-X1 Power Module – Linear voltage-controlled power amplifiers.

NI sbRIO Inverter GPIC 

NI Single-Board RIO General-Purpose Inverter Controller (GPIC).

 

NI sbRIO-9606 Embedded Device With LX45 FPGA, RIO Mezzanine Card Connector.
NI 9683 Mezzanine Card for NI Single-Board RIO With AIO and DIO.
NI 9693 2-Slot C Series RMC.

  

NI CompactRIO

CompactRIO is a reconfigurable embedded control and acquisition system. The CompactRIO system’s rugged hardware architecture includes I/O modules, a reconfigurable FPGA chassis, and an embedded controller. Additionally, CompactRIO is programmed with NI LabVIEW graphical programming tools and can be used in a variety of embedded control and monitoring applications.

• NI cRIO-9024, 800 MHz CPU, 512 MB DRAM, 4 GB Storage CompactRIO Controller.
• NI cRIO‑9063, 667 MHz Dual-Core CPU, 256 MB DRAM, 512 MB Storage, Zynq-7020 FPGA, 4-Slot CompactRIO Controller
• NI 9201, ±10 V, Analog Input, 500 kS/s, 8 Ch Module.
• NI 9401, 5 V/TTL, Bidirectional Digital I/O, 8 Ch Module.
• NI 9411, ±5 to 24 V, Differential Digital Input, 6 Ch Module.
• Q1-cRIO module.
• NI 9502 Brushless Servo Drive Module
• NI PS-15 Power Supply 5 A, 24 VDC.
• NI PS-16 Power Supply 10 A, 24 VDC.
• AKM Brushless Servo Motor.

  

 

Computing Software