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Opal-RT Delivers the World's Fastest, Most Precise Real-time Electrical System Simulator to Mitsubishi, Toyota and Hitachi
Opal-RT has successfully demonstrated that the RT-LAB Electric Drive Simulator, installed this month at Mitsubishi Electric Company in Japan, is the world's fastest and most precise real-time simulator of electrical systems. Based on RT-LAB and Simulink software, the real-time electrical simulator can simulate a complete AC motor drive with a sampling time below 10 s, with an effective precision better than 1 s, due to the use of the fastest Pentium 4 Xeon dual-processor shared memory boards, a unique real-time interpolation algorithm and fast Xilinx FPGA reconfigurable I/Os. Read More
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LiveDrive 2005 Challenge - Win Cash and Help Save the World!
Attention all Professors, Students and Graduates, as the demand grows for this planet's all-too-finite oil reserves, the race is on for alternative means of powering our ground transportation vehicles. The most likely scenario that will be played out over the next two decades is that the hybrid electric vehicle will replace the pure internal combustion engine, which in turn will be replaced by the fuel-cell-driven electric vehicle, fuelled by the most abundant element in the universe, hydrogen.
The scope for the LiveDrive Challenge will focus on the preparation of off-line electric drive models for real-time execution.
To see how you can join the LiveDrive 2005 Challenge visit:
/livedrive2005/index.html
Sign Up Here to request your information pack about the Challenge.
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New Defence Research Contract for Multiple UAV Simulation
The Defence Research & Development Canada (DRDC) has given Opal-RT Technologies a new contract to further develop the RT-LAB Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Engineering Simulator to optimize it for simulating many UAVs at once. The contract will cover many enhancements to RT-LAB and DINAMO, as well as providing new, state-of-the-art real-time technologies for Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) development and testing.
The project is budgeted at $1.5M CDN and will be partly funded by the Canadian Defence Industrial Research (DIR) program.
Click Here for more information on the RT-LAB UAV Engineering Simulator
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Opal-RT Launches OP5000: FPGA-based I/O Products for RT-LAB Engineering Simulators
The new OP5000 product line combines advanced FPGA technologies with signal conditioning to maximize real-time simulation performance. OP5000 is a range of I/O and signal conditioning hardware, optimized for Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) simulation applications. Specifically designed for use with Opal-RT's flagship RT-LAB Engineering Simulator, the OP5000 series includes I/O interfaces based on Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) technologies, and are available for either PCI or PC/104 installation.
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RT-LAB DriveLab
RT-LAB DriveLab is a fully integrated Hardware-in-the-Loop experimentation platform that incorporates real-time simulation of Simulink and SystemBuild models with FPGA-based I/O interfaces and motors, with their required power electronics to drive them. The system has been specially designed to be simple and robust for use in educational laboratories but is sufficiently open to allow professor or students to expand the system to their requirements. It also features the RT-LAB LabVIEW API for the use of graphical operator interfaces that ease the use of the system. Read More
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Opal-RT would like to say thank to everyone who visited our booth or attended our presentation at the PESC 2004 in Aachen, Germany in June.
When you are in the area please stop by and visit us at the following events:
EVENTS
September 2004
EPE-PEMC 2004
11th International Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference
Sept 2-4, 2004
Riga, Latvia
Paper Title: A Real-Time Simulator for Wind Turbine Doubly Fed Induction Generator Applications (pdf)
Authors: Jean Belanger and Christian Dufour
Presentation Date: Thursday, September 2, 2004
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PARELEC & SDA 2004
International Conference on Parallel Computing in Electrical Engineering
Sept 7-10, 2004
Dresden, Germany
Paper Title: A Real-time PC-Based Parallel Simulator of Electrical Systems and Drives
Authors: Jean Belanger and Christian Dufour
Presentation Date: Wednesday, September 8, 2004 4:30-5:00pm - Session A3 - Specification and Modeling of Parallel Systems
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2004 CarSim, VehSim, TruckSim User Conference
Sept 13-14, 2004
Four Points by Sheraton Ann Arbor
3200 Boardwalk
Ann Arbor, MI 48108
Phone (734) 996-0600
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ETIC - EDTA
Electric Drive Transportation Association Conference & Exposition
Sept 21-23, 2004
Orlando, Florida
Booth# 504
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GPC 2004
Global Powertrain Congress
Sept 25-28, 2004
Detroit, Michigan
Title of Paper: Real-Time Simulation of Fuel Cell Hybrid Electrical Vehicles
Authors: Jean Belanger and Christian Dufour
Presentation Date: Thursday, September 30, 2004 - 11:15am
Session: Advanced Propulsion/HEV
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From our download section you can find the following new technical papers and presentations:
Posters from Electrical Technical Session at NSF Workshop - Boston, MA July 2004
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RT-LAB in resentation
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RT-LAB Training Presentation
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