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Considering the difficulties to test a real control system at a learning laboratory, related to equipment acquisition or physical installation, it is necessary to develop a simulation system that will act as parts of the real system. In this scenario, through the use of recent computational resources in hardware and software, it is possible to explore the concept named Hardware in the Loop (HIL), which consists on well known technique mostly employed on the development and testing of electronic, mechanical and mechatronic real equipments by the use a data and signal interface between the equipments and computational real-time systems. This work proposes a HIL-based system where a Foundation Fieldbus control system manages the simulation for a generic plant in an industrial process. The simulation software is executed in a PC, and its purpose is the didactic use for engineering students to learn to control a process similar to the real system. The plant is simulated in a computer, implemented in LabVIEW and part of the fieldbus network simulator named FBSIMU (Mossin et al., 2008). Foundation Fieldbus physical devices are configured to operate in a control strategy and interact with the simulated environment. Results demonstrate it is a feasible technique that can be extended to more complex and elaborate control strategies.

Equipment Based on the Hardware in the Loop (HIL) Concept to Test Automation Equipment Using Plant Simulation