Development and Testing of a Software Simulation Tool for Design of the Energy Management System in Elevators

This work shows the development of a software tool that provides realistic operation power profiles in elevators for residential and public buildings applications. The implemented tool carries out a kinematic, dynamic and energetic analysis of the system, as a function of operational variables in the system. Therefore, the final load profile is a function of the most significant parameters in the operation of the elevator. These load profiles have several key applications, such as tuning the controllers of the control loops in the power converters, defining the power flow strategies, or sizing the power and energy ratings in energy storage system tied to the elevator system. The validity and applicability of the results from the simulator are verified through computer simulations, through a HIL (Hardware-In-the- Loop) platform, and are finally validated by means of a full scale laboratory prototype of the system.