COURSEWARE
Experience the latest technology of virtual laboratories and courseware to enhance your classes. Created by professors for professors, our courseware and these virtual laboratories are the result of a collaboration between OPAL-RT and pioneering university professors worldwide.
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This courseware is intended to teach the fundamentals of synchronous and asynchronous machines. Users are in-the-loop, interacting with virtual machines and doing experiments as they would with physical test benches. As a result, they will fully grasp the identification of steady-state model parameters, synchronous machine generator and motor operations, and asynchronous machine speed control.
This courseware is intended to teach various control strategies implemented in variable speed drives. Users grasp a deep understanding of concepts such as torque and speed linear control for brushed-DC motors, hysteresis self- and vector-current control for PMSM, indirect FOC for induction motors and vector-control for doubly fed induction motor. Additionally, switches-based converters are employed in the scheme instead of the commonly used averaged models.
This courseware is intended to teach the fundamentals of electric engineering. Users are in the loop, interacting with a real-time virtual laboratory, that includes passive elements (resistances, inductances and capacitors), single- and three-phase transformers, dc and ac sources, scopes and measuring instruments. As a result, students will fully grasp the fundamental notions of electric circuit theory, delta/star, series/parallel, hybrid connections, steady-state and transient analysis, instantaneous, mean, and RMS values, balanced and unbalanced systems, among others.
This courseware is intended to teach power electronics converters. Users can experiment and learn power electronics converters, such as choppers (buck, boost, buck-boost), rectifiers (single- and three-phase, diode- and thyristor-based), inverters (single- and three-phase, two- and three-level NPC). Notions of PWM frequency, duty cycle, harmonic analysis, power flow computation, and filtering are thoroughly addressed. Control logic with HIL and RCP tools commonly used in innovative power electronics industry research and development are provided too.
This courseware is intended to teach the real-time simulation of a microgrid and its major components. Users can experiment and learn about the real-time operation principles of renewable energy resources, such as battery energy storage systems, photovoltaic generation system, and wind turbine generation system, including different control and mitigation strategies used by power systems operators and utilities. Notions of maximum power point tracking, load shedding, demand response, and power flow are thoroughly addressed.
The courseware is intended to teach serial robotics manipulators to universities’ students. Students grasp deep understanding of concepts such as: DH-Table, direct and inverse displacement analysis, decoupled and non-decoupled architectures, kinetostatics and Jacobian analysis, dynamics, trajectory generation and tracking, pick-and-place operation, position and speed joints control, linear and non-linear end-effector control, and force-based control. The architecture covered are: 3dof planar robot, FANUC LRMate 200iC, and UR10e.
The courseware is intended to teach wheeled mobile robots to universities’ students. Students grasp deep understanding of non-holonomic constraints, kinematics and dynamics models. Control strategies for navigation includes: one-chained system form, input-output linearization, unstable zero-dynamics, Lyapunov function for navigation, and sliding mode. The architectures covered are differential-drive, Ackermann-based steering, articulated-based steering and wheeled pendulums.
The courseware is intended to teach autonomous applications of off-road vehicles to universities’ students who took previously the serial robotics manipulators and wheeled mobile robots. Three architectures are proposed: (i) a differential drive robot carrying a UR10e to move in a warehouse, (ii) an Ackermann-based steering tractor with a 3dof planar mower arm to drive on a highway and cut the grass, and (iii) an articulated-based steering tractor with a loader arm and bucket to load/unload material in a construction/mill court.
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Improve your classes with tailored Electrical and Robotics courseware that includes software, virtual laboratories and customizable exercises.
OPAL-RT supports students and professionals who would like to take individual courses in Electrical and Robotics engineering. OPAL-RT will assign the right instructor to you, allowing you to take your skills to the next level. Discover the Electrical & Robotics Course Catalog >
Our courseware is the result of a collaborative effort between OPAL-RT and worldwide university professors who are recognized pioneers in their respective fields.
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Welcome users in virtual labs where they have access to a wide range of components: AC and DC sources, loads, transformers, batteries, PV cells, wind turbines, electric grid, serial robotic manipulators, wheeled mobile robots, four-channel scope, and other measurement instruments.
Users might blow up fuses if they do the wrong manipulations on the equipment. We are not talking about video games here. Working with our courseware is also a great way to familiarize yourself with OPAL-RT products.
The user is in the loop in real time. Our user-friendly platform even allows you to create your own exercise.
Our courseware can run on students’ laptops. You are in active learning mode and you gain autonomy by having the opportunity to perform most of your work from home.
They are standalone products. No need to have real-time simulators to run the courseware on if your budget can not allow it.
OPAL-RT courseware has been thoughtfully crafted by renowned university professors to provide the most comprehensive learning experience possible.
Discover how universities around the world have modernized their teaching methods by adopting real-time simulation in their educational programs.
The OP4512 is a compact, entry-level simulator that combines all of OPAL-RT’s strengths in high-performance Rapid Control Prototyping and Hardware-in-the-loop simulation.
The OP8666 DSP controller board is designed especially for academic institutions and R&D facilities for them to have an enclosed, compact, plug-and-play controller, ready to use out of the box.
