Professor Alain Bouscayrol of University of Lille, France

Hardware-In-the-Loop (HIL) simulation is used for validation tests of real-time embedded systems before implementation on actual processes.

Contrary to software simulation, HIL simulation uses one or several actual devices instead of their simulation models. The other parts of the process are simulated into a controller board or in parallel computers. Even though many HIL simulations are dedicated to assessing controller boards, drive validations are nowadays more and more developed using this methodology.

HIL simulation thus enables us to check availability and reliability of electrical systems before their insertion into an entire system. Indeed, implementation constraints are taken into account, such as sensor accuracy, the sampling period, the modulation frequency, active limitations and so on.

Moreover, fault operations can easily be tested in various cases. From another point of view, it could be valuable to insert a device, which is difficult to model (an internal combustion engine for example), in the loop. In this way, the influence of the model uncertainties could be tested using HIL simulation.- HIL testing is nowaday more and more used in industry as a valuable intermediary step before the final prototype.

This talk will composed of the following parts:
*  Different types of HIL simulation
*  Organization of power HIL testing (using Energetic Macroscopic Representation)
*  Application to industrial cases (for electric, hybrid and fuel-cell vehicles, subways and trains)
*  Future trends on cloud-based HIL testing (example of the PANDA European Projects)

Biography:

Alain BOUSCAYROL received Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse, France, in 1995. From 1996 to 2005, he was Associate Professor at University of Lille, France, where he has been a Professor since 2005. From 2004 to 2019, he has managed the national network on Energy Management of Hybrid Electric Vehicles (MEGEVH) France. Since 2015, he has been coordinator of the CUMIN (Campus of University with Mobility based on Innovation and carbon Neutrality) interdisciplinary programme of University of Lille (https://cumin.univ-lille.fr/ ). Since 2018, he has been co-director of the international research lab e-CAMPUS on sustainable mobility (France / Canada).   From 2018 to 2022, he was coordinator of PANDA a European H2020 project on simulation and testing of electrified vehicles (https://project-panda.eu/ ).

His research interests at the L2EP (Laboratory of Electrical Engineering) include graphical descriptions (Energetic Macroscopic Representation, http://www.emrwebsite.org/, etc.) for control of electric drives, wind energy conversion systems, railway traction systems, electric or hybrid electric vehicles and hardware-in-the-loop testing. His collaborative works with industry on electrified vehicles include PSA Peugeot Citroen, Nexter Systems, Renault TR, Siemens Mobility, Siemens Software, SNCF and Valeo. From 2014 to 2019, he was nominated Chair of the Vehicle Power Propulsion technical committee by IEEE Vehicular Technology Society. From 2014 to 2018 he was appointed Associate Editor of IEEE trans. on Vehicular Technology. Since 2016, has been elected Distinguished Lecturer by IEEE VTS. Since 2019, he has been appointed general chair of the steering committee of IEEE VPPC.

Book Chapter

A. Bouscayrol, "Hardware-In-the-Loop simulation", Industrial Electronics Handbook, second edition, tome “Control and
mechatronics”, Chapter 33, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis group, Chicago, March 2011, pp. 33-1/33-15, ISBN 978-1-
4398-0287-8.

Scientific papers

A. Bouscayrol, X. Guillaud, P. Delarue, B. Lemaire-Semail, “Energetic Macroscopic Representation and inversion-based control illustrated on a wind energy conversion system using Hardware-in-the-loop simulation”, IEEE transactions on
Industrial Electronics, vol. 56, no. 12, pp. 4826-4835, December 2009,

A. L. Allègre, A. Bouscayrol, J. N. Verhille, P. Delarue, E. Chattot, S. El Fassi, “Reduced-scale power Hardware-In-the-
Loop simulation of an innovative subway", IEEE transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 57, no. 4, pp. 1175-1185,
April 2010 (common paper of L2EP Lille and Siemens Transportation Systems)

T. Letrouvé, W. Lhomme, A. Bouscayrol, N. Dollinger, “Control validation of Peugeot 3∞8 Hybrid4 vehicle using a
reduced-scale power HIL simulation", Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology, Vol. 8, no. 5, September 2013,
pp. 1227-1233 (common paper of L2EP Lille, and PSA Peugeot Citroën within MEGEVH, French network on HEVs)

C. Mayet, P. Delarue, A. Bouscayrol, E. Chatot, “Hardware-In-the-Loop Simulation of Traction Power Supply for Power
Flows Analysis of Multi-Train Subway Lines", IEEE transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 66, no. 7, July 2017,
pp. 5564-5571, DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2016.2622245 (common paper of L2EP Lille and Siemens Mobility)

K. Li, A. Bouscayrol, C. Shui, Z. Zhang, S. Han, “Reduced-Scale Hardware-In-the-Loop Simulation of an Electric
Vehicle using Modular Cascade Machines”, IEEE-VPPC’17, Belfort (France), December 2017 (common paper L2EP
Lille and Harbin Institute of Technology, China)

T. Transi, P. G. Pereirinha, A. Bouscayrol, M. Degano, “Hardware-In-the-Loop Emulation of a Small Electric Race Car
using Energetic Macroscopic Representation”, IEEE-VPPC’19, Hanoi (Vietnam), October 2019 (common paper INES
Coimbra, Portugal, Univ. Notthimgham, UK, and L2EP Lille).

R. German, F. Tournez, A. Bouscayrol, A. Lièvre, B. Lemaire-Semail, “Power Hardware-In-the-Loop test of low-voltage
battery for a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle”, EPE’22 ECCE Europe, Hanover (Germany), September 2022 (common
paper L2EP Univ. Lille and Valeo company, within H2020 PANDA project, GA #824256).

Email:

Address:University of Lille, , Lille, France