Hardware-in-the-Loop of a Flow Plant Embedded in FPGA, for Process Control

Abstract

It presents the simulation through the Hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) technique of a flow plant. The mentioned system is designed in the LabVIEW software and implemented in an FPGA. As a result of the system tests performed in manual mode, an absolute error of 0.02 is obtained in the simulated instruments. In addition, two controllers are designed (continuous and discrete), and the results indicate that the system works in real time and does not generate disturbances in response to the implemented controls.