Static and Dynamic Analysis of HIL Simulator for Fluid Power Driven Machines
A Hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulation based method for designing and testing of fluid power driven machines has recently been studied in [1], [2] and [3]. In those papers the method has successfully been tested for driving physical prototypes with simulation models of various hydraulic circuits. Although the results of the tested method have appeared to be reasonable the critical boundary conditions of the system has not yet been studied. In this paper a simple hydraulic system is modeled and used for driving the simulator. The simulated system is then built from real components and measured. The measured and simulated results are compared. One of the main goals of this paper is to find answer to the following question: What is the maximum bandwidth that can be put out from the simulator with sufficient accuracy. The answer demonstrates the applicability of the developed HIL-simulator. Also different sizes of time steps are studied.