A hardware in the loop simulation platform for vision-based control of unmanned air vehicles

Virtual sensor models for real-time applications

“…Approaches for simulating perception include HardwareIn-The-Loop (HiL) systems: for cameras HiL (Gans et al, 2009) setups or Software-In-The-Loop rendering (Gruyer et al, 2012) are viable alternatives. However, distance measuring sensors remain challenging to simulate.…”

Hardware-in-the-loop simulation platform for supervisory control of mineral grinding process

“…The gap between the numerical simulation and the actual application had persisted for years until the use of hardware-in-the-loop simulation (HILS) [16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24]. By combining the simulated system with physical hardware, the HILS realizes a full-scope simulation of integrated control system including sensors, actuators, real control units and so forth, which is difficult to achieve solely by the numerical simulator.…”

“…A HILS platform performed in [18] is used to assess the high-integrity embedded automotive control systems. In recent years, the applications of HILS platform in robotics and automotive systems have been discussed in [19,20] and [21][22][23][24], respectively. These applications illustrate the HILS can effectively reduce the risk of accidents at various stages of development: design, implementation, testing, operation, and maintenance stages.…”

Hardware-in-the-loop implementation for an active heave compensated drawworks

“…This is so actuator lag and sensor noise can be taken into account. This was done by N.R Gans et al in the testing of their unmanned air vehicle [6].…”

“…This is so actuator lag and sensor noise can be taken into account. This was done by N.R Gans et al in the testing of their unmanned air vehicle [6]. The advantage for using HIL simulation in developing an embedded system is to be able to tune the controller before its implementation with a physical plant.…”