What is HIL TEST and how much does it cost?

I bought MATLAB and SIMULINKs for BMS modeling and simulation

(SOC, SOH, Cell Balancing, etc.)

But I didn't know there was such a thing as HIL-TESTING

What is HIL-TESTING and how much does it cost?

Answer 1

[Harshit Gupta]

As per my understanding, you have the following two queries:

1. What is HIL Testing, and how can it be performed in Simulink?
2. If there is a specific MathWorks product for the same, how much does it cost?

Solution:

1. Hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testingis a testing technique that is often used while developing different systems to reduce development work and improve the effectiveness of testing.

In Simulink, you can perform HIL testing by making use of Hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulations. It is a technique for validating your control algorithm, running on an intended target controller, by creating a virtual real-time environment that represents your physical system to control. HIL helps to test the behavior of your control algorithms without physical prototypes. You can refer to the following documentation links for more information on HIL Simulations and for the different workflows scenarios where it can be employed:

• https://www.mathworks.com/help/simscape/ug/what-is-hardware-in-the-loop-simulation.html
• https://www.mathworks.com/discovery/hardware-in-the-loop-hil.html
• https://www.mathworks.com/help/simscape/ug/hardware-in-the-loop-simulation-workflow.html

2. There is no specific product for performing HIL testing, and the products you need for the same would depend on your use case and the workflow that you are following.