Real-Time Controller-Hardware-in-the-Loop Testing of Power Electronics Converters

In this paper, real-time testing of four non-isolated power electronics converters, including buck, boost, buck-boost, and Ćuk converters, using the Controller-Hardware-in-the-Loop (C-HIL) platform is presented. Verification of such converters is mainly associated with high complexity that incurs higher costs since a series of long simulations is required to verify their performance and behavior. Therefore, a trade-off occurs between the performance and cost while using the C-HIL platform. The main aim of this study is to show the feasibility of the proposed real-time implementation based on two LAUNCHXL-F28379D development kits, without using expensive Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) systems and commercially available real-time simulators.