Rapid Prototyping Testing Technique for Electric Vehicle Propulsion Systems Utilizing Real-Time Hardware in-the-Loop (HIL) Device

This paper introduces a powerful rapid prototyping technique using Typhoon hardware in the loop device for electric vehicles EV applications. First, the propulsion system of an electric vehicle in a front-wheel-drive configuration is built and tested in PSIM. Then, an all-wheel-drive configuration is built and tested in PSIM, achieving a new design of the propulsion system. The total drive train for both configurations is built and run using Typhoon's FPGAs which is governed in real time by the control algorithm implemented to the connected DSP board. Thus, both configurations run in real-time in Typhoon HIL without the need of real hardware setup but with utilizing a market available DSP controller. The results obtained from PSIM and Typhoon HIL in front wheel drive and all-wheel drive configurations are very close argument, which illustrate the rapid prototyping capability of Typhoon HIL that save the cost of having a real hardware in the testing period of the research and minimize the time of testing while adding the safety factor to the process.