Our Customers

A Long List of Satisfied Customers

Opal-RT has gained the business and trust amongst a large customer base including many Fortune 500 companies, OEMs and VARs. One most striking point is how our customer partition represents the diversity of applications covered by our solutions. It further reinforces the wide range of fields of expertise we keep up with and the broad range of solutions and services we provide in the fields of aerospace, automotive design, robotics, advanced control, process control, electrical systems, power electronics and electromechanical systems. We have obtained throughout the years an excellent and solid reputation, and we intend to keep it that way. Our international presence includes strong product and application specialists who make no compromises to insure successful implementations of your solutions, from design to commissioning.

Aerospace

	Canadian Space Agency, Space Technologies Department The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) is currently running a very complex robotic training system using RT-LAB. The 6-node Opal-RT system is used to simulate the robot controller and the end manipulator of the robotic arm, with contact-force measurement at 1 ms sampling rates. Key requirements were openness, flexibility, scalability, re-usability, and minimal maintenance needs.The RT-LAB system was investigated and demonstrated at the satisfaction of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) inspectors, SPAR (the manufacturer of the International Space Station robotic arm, now called MDRobotics) and CAE (provider of the virtual reality system and dynamic model of the space station). A Complete Integration Solution: from a SIMULINK Block Diagram to OPAL-RT Distributed Real-Time Systemin no Time. "RT-LAB allowed us to run a complex space-robot controller in real-time. Its distributed capabilities were essential in acheiving real-time performance, while its flexibility and open architecture helped maximizing efficiency of the design team." - Jean-Claude Piedboeuf, Deputy Director Spacecraft Engineering, CSA
	NASA Glenn Research Center The Microgravity Science Division at NASA Glenn Research Center is responsible for planning, advocating, directing, and implementing space experiments in technology and microgravity science. This Division both conducts and sponsors ground-based scientific and technology studies that may lead to experiments in space. The focus of these efforts is to enhance the understanding of the role of gravity in a wide range of physical processes (ie. materials science, power, propulsion, combustion, fluid physics, plasma physics, etc.) This work is carried out by scientists in the external community and by scientists in this Division as well as in other Center organizations. The technology experiments for which the Division is responsible provide enabling technology for future space missions including the Space Station and the planned programs in Human Exploration and Development of Space Enterprise. A very significant and substantial part of the Division's effort is the design, buildup, testing, and integration of hardware for experiment packages to be launched aboard the Space Shuttle. This division is also responsible for planning the utilization of the Space Station for scientific and technological missions. This includes defining experimental facilities and developing experimental hardware for the Space Station.
	Pratt & Whitney Canada Pratt &Whitney is using a VME version of RT-LAB as the real-time control platform for locomotive applications of its gas-turbine engines. The final step in this project, which included the development of drivers for I/O and RS-422 communications, saw RT-LAB in use in the actual turbine-controller in the production locomotive.
	Pratt & Whitney Canada in China Pratt & Whitney Canada was recently engaged by a China-based engineering company to develop a method of pumping gas through a pipeline using one of the company's standard gas turbine engines - the ST40. Opal-RT Technologies' RT-LAB proved to be ideal for use as a development platform, and was used by P&WC to develop the control system development environment for the project, as well as the integrated control system that is intended for field use.
	Canadian National Defence The Department of National Defence Canada has given Opal-RT the mandate to develop simulation technologies that will enhance their Warfare simulation capabilities and subsequently deliver systems, which integrate the developed technologies. Examples of the technologies requested are the support of multiple-processor boards for distributed processing, support of Gigabit technologies, fast simulations with NT and more. All technologies developed under this contract are owned by Opal-RT Technologies and are or will be commercialized.
	Defence Science Organization (DSO) National Labs Created in 1972 to undertake defence research and development (R&D) for the Singapore Armed Forces, Defence Science Organization (DSO) has now established itself as the foremost R&D institution in Singapore. While R&D defence applications remains DSO's primary focus, non-defence applications, especially applications that include dual-use technology areas such as information security, signal processing, information technology, electronics, applied chemistry, aircraft navigation, and control, remain a secondary focus. RT-LAB is used for control system simulation applications at DSO National Labs.
	Embraer Brazilian aircraft manufacturer for commercial and defense markets, Embraer of So Paulo has signed a multi-phase agreement with Opal-RT for the Implementation of a Modeling and Simulation Capability based on RT-LAB. Opal-RT's Aerospace Modeling and Simulation Division will provide services, which have the expertise to develop aircraft control systems and certify aircraft models. Phase 1 of the agreement was for Flight Dynamics Modeling and Simulation, including ten RT-LAB licenses.
	Marintek Marintek, the Norwegian Marine Technology Institute, specializes in naval systems development. Opal-RT has provided a two-node system that allows them to perform stability tests for shallow water navigation and control. The object of the tests is to develop control systems whose aim is to ensure safe navigation and docking under difficult sea conditions.
	Mechtronix Systems Mechtronix Systems, a key player in the world market for flight training devices, uses RT-LAB as a rapid control prototyping system for internal development of an electrical force feedback system and other flight simulator applications.
	United Defense United Defense, L.P., is using an RT-LAB system in the development of the Advanced Gun System (AGS). Model definition is carried out in a MATRIXx/SystemBuild environment with the real-time emulator running on a RT-LAB QNX target.
	University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies (UTIAS) is currently developing an attitude controller in the context of the MOST satellite program. The satellite will be used as a in-orbit telescope, which will provide capabilities currently not available with the Hubble telescope. RT-LAB is used for the development of the attitude controller itself. Another project with UTIAS involves the delivery of the simulation engine for a complete satellite simulator. The system is a 16 node PC-based simulator and allows several configurations, which vary depending on the application simulated. Simulations are conducted in two different laboratories linked with a high-speed fibre-optic CLan link on Giganet to allow interaction between the simulations. "The University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies carries out teaching and research in the areas of aircraft simulation and avionic control systems. We chose an RT-LAB Real-Time Simulator from Opal-RT for our lab because of its power, flexibility and affordability. We need to do some highly complex simulations, so we need the RT-LAB system's sixteen parallel processors to crunch through massive off-line parameter sweeps. When we are not running large-scale models, we reconfigure the individual processors for a multitude of uses, from driving multiple simultaneous hardware-in-the-loop experiments to running the user-interface of our flight simulator. Best of all, the systems use of commercial-of-the shelf components helped keep down our purchase price and assure an upgrade path. Dr. Hugh Liu, Professor, University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies (UTIAS)