Objective: Set up the real-time testing hardware and test communications between host and target computers.

• Real-time testing overview
• Setting up the host and target computers
• Running a real-time application

Objective: Use Speedgoat driver blocks to convert a desktop-based test bench to an RCP application.

• PMSM hardware introduction
• Converting plant models into plant hardware interfaces
• Implementing Speedgoat IO drivers
• Testing sensors and actuators
• Executing closed-loop real-time simulations with physical hardware
• Visualizing and logging signals

Objective: Use Simulink dashboard blocks, instrument panels, and MATLAB apps to create interactive interfaces to a real-time application.

• Using Simulink Dashboard blocks
• Creating instrument panels and host scopes
• Designing MATLAB apps

Objective: Use Simulink Test to create and execute an automated test suite.

• Building a harness for automatic testing
• Creating test sequences
• Iterating input and parameter sets
• Analyzing test results

Objective: Configure IO blocks to interface the target machine with standard communication protocols.

• Simulink Real-Time protocol support
• Real-time UDP
• Inter-Integrated Circuit (I2C) loopback testing

Objective: Use the desktop model to validate model fidelity with respect to optimization considerations, and optimize the plant model to execute on target hardware.

• Characterizing the plant model
• Profiling and debugging real-time applications
• Optimizing plant model performance

Objective: Convert a simulation test bench into a HIL testing configuration, and use a real-time plant model to validate system requirements.

• Hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) workflow overview
• Running the controller algorithm on production hardware
• Setting up a HIL system
• Running HIL tests