Key Success Stories

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
Real-Time Simulation of Electric Motor and Power Electronics

Opal-RT Technologies’ RT-LAB Electric Drive Simulator was selected and installed by Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (MELCO) in Japan. With a simulation period as low as 8 µs and a precise simulation of inverter PWM switching, including such tiny details as the dead time that is smaller than this actual simulation period, RT-LAB Electric Drive Simulator is the world's fastest and most precise real-time simulator of motor drives and power electronics based systems. >> More info here

Opal-RT On Board the ARJ21
Opal-RT is proud to announce the sale of an RT-LAB HIL Simulator to the Shanghai Aeronautical Institute (SARI). SARI is a lead institute on China's indigenous regional jet program, the ARJ21. SARI will use the RT-LAB system in the ARJ21 Iron Bird.
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Texas A&M University: Virtual Electrical Drives Enhance Engineering Learning
A major challenge of electrical engineering professors is to provide a laboratory environment in which their students can reinforce their understanding of complex engineering concepts in a way that is pedagogically valid, cost-effective and - above all - safe. This is particularly true when trying to understand the effects of the various parameters in an electrical drive system.
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Fault Insertion Adds Reality to Virtual Vehicle HIL Tests
Opal-RT Technologies and add2 Ltd. have joined forces to enhance the ability of testing the stability of in-vehicle electronic control units (ECU) to improve controller reliability and vehicle safety. The relationship will bring together the fault insertion products developed by add2 Ltd. with RT-LAB Engineering Simulators from Opal-RT Technologies to test real-world in-vehicle scenarios in virtual vehicle Hardware-In-the-Loop tests.
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RT-LAB Technology Rides the Bombardier JetTrain
As Bombardier Transportation recently unveiled their state-of-the-art JetTrain, an RT-LAB Industrial Embedded Controller was on-board providing the advanced control for the Pratt & Whitney gas turbine engine, derived from the PW 150 jet engine. This combination makes the JetTrain, described by Pierre Lortie, President and Chief Operating Officer of Bombardier Transportation as "game-changing technology", the first 150-mile per hour (240 km/h) non-electric high-speed rail locomotive designed for the North American market.
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OPAL-RT Flying High with the EMB-170
The maiden flight for Embraer's new EMB-170 regional jet in February 2002 went off without at hitch, and Opal-RT's technologies and experts were "on board" in their on-ground telemetry station, to perform real-time in-flight, as well as post-flight, processing and analysis of the flight-test data.
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Ford Powertrain
RT-LAB has been incorporated into the companys Powertrain Core Competency training program. The program equips student engineers with skills to calibrate Electronic Control Units (ECU) for vehicle engines, in order to achieve specific design objectives. This includes gaining hands-on experience with Ford's standard calibration tools - software that interfaces with the ECU in order to allow parameters to be changed and optimized.

Instead of using a real engine in the classroom, Ford trainers use real-time dynamic simulations of engines, running on RT-LAB Engineering Simulators, connected to the ECU via a specialized signal conditioning unit. The simulations behave like the real engine and allow the trainer to set up different running conditions, and the students to change parameters on their own laptops with the calibration tool loaded. In this way, the class can immediately see the response of the engine and ECU to parameter changes and different conditions, giving them a clean, safe, risk-free way of applying what they have learned to as close to a practical situation as possible.
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Pratt & Whitney Canada
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.

Hardware used was based on National Instruments' PXI industrial PC platform, signal conditioning units, and data I/O boards. The software used to develop the Human/Machine Interface was National Instruments' LabVIEW. The CompactPCI-based PXI platform offers a small footprint, and rugged packaging, at a low cost.
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