Virtual machine — A hardware in the loop test for drive inverters

This paper presents a new approach for hardware in the loop testing of voltage source inverters for drive applications. For this purpose the inverter is not connected to a real machine, but to a second power inverter instead, which acts like an electrical machine. Thereby the inverter under test can operate in its normal mode, which in the most of the cases is a field oriented current control with superimposed speed controller.