Establishing a hardware-in-the-loop research environment with a hybrid energy storage system

The KIT Energy Smart Home Lab is a smart residential building comprising building automation systems, metering systems, sensors, intelligent home appliances, heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning equipment, distributed generation, and energy storage systems. Recently, to facilitate fully functional power hardware-in-the-loop simulations and evaluations, the laboratory is extended by a hybrid energy storage system and a linear voltage amplifier for real-time simulations. This paper presents the setup of the laboratory, the hardware-in-the loop research environment for low voltage components and systems, and first measurements when using a simulated artificial mains network.