VisSim/Real-TimePRO™
Send to friendReal-time Data Acquisition, Control, and Hardware-in-the-Loop Validation
VisSim/Real-TimePRO interfaces VisSim to popular analog and digital I/O boards and devices from National Instruments, Measurement Computing, and Quanser. VisSim/Real-TimePRO provides the capability to couple a VisSim system model directly with a real PLC or DCS system for off-line tuning, or to prototype a VisSim control with a real plant.
With VisSim/Real-TimePRO, hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) systems can be configured and executed by interfacing VisSim plant or controller models with real-world hardware, such as manufacturing plants, chemical processes, motors, pumps, and electric drives. The interface to the real-world hardware is through computer I/O cards; high-speed motion control interface cards; or serial port connections to Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) or Distributed Control Systems (DCSs). There is no code generation or programming involved to configure an HIL system with VisSim/Real-TimePRO. Click here for a list of supported boards and a discussion of board performance.
Applications
- Develop and validate control strategies
- Perform off-line tuning of controllers against a real-time plant
- Perform real-time control of actual plant
- Operator training against a real-time plant simulation
Industries
- Biomedical engineering
- Furnace control
- HVAC
- Model verification
- PLC commissioning
- Precision servo control
- Pulp and paper
- Real-time simulation
- System identification
Features
- Works interactively under Windows
- Universal library support for National Instruments and Measurement Computing boards
- Real-time data acquisition and display
- Real-time HIL execution
- Real-time data logging with gating
- Closed-loop process control
- Cold junction compensation
- Pulse width modulation
- Thermocouple linearization
- PID tuning
- Connect up to 16 boards simultaneously
- Simultaneous use of boards from different vendors
- Up to 10 kHz data sampling rate
- 4-20 ma I/O
- PWM output
- Counter-timer
- Quadrature encoder
- Use up to 16 boards in one diagram
- Simultaneous use of boards from different vendors
- Multiplexer addons provide up to 112 channels per board
- Data switching of 120V AC systems
- Supports USB devices like PMD-1208