[TRNSYS-users] Emulator system with TRNSYS

David BRADLEY d.bradley at tess-inc.com
Tue Mar 27 07:08:42 PDT 2012


Sunliang,
   I saw this done once as a demonstration at Johnson Controls 
(www.jci.com) but I do not know if the work was ever written up. The 
process of connecting a TRNSYS simulation to actual equipment is not 
standard practice and I do not know of any publications on the subject. 
In the case that I saw, the simulation/emulation was run from TRNSYS. 
The researchers had constructed circuitry that had some digital I/O 
ports and an analog to digital converter. A building was simulated in 
TRNSYS as was the controller the controller component commanded real 
world equipment ( a fairly simple small residential air handler in this 
case). The TRNSYS control signals were passed to the digital I/O ports 
and analog signals from sensors in the equipment came back into the 
TRNSYS simulation through the analog to digital converter. I'm afraid I 
do not recall more; as I mentioned, this was all very customized and not 
something that could very well be laid out as instructions to follow.
Regards,
  David

On 3/27/2012 02:46, SUNLIANG CAO wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> Is there any tutorial or guide about the EMULATOR System with TRNSYS 
> (Be better with TRNSYS 17).
>
> Emulator system is arranged in a way that part of the system is real 
> (eg. ground source heat pump), and part of the system is simulated by 
> computor (eg, Building part simulated by TRNSYS 17). There will be I/O 
> interface and communication software between the real system and 
> computor.
>
> I hope that there will be some guide or tutorial about the 
> installation, I/O intrerface, communication software, clock 
> arrangement of EMULATOR system with TRNSYS 17.
>
> Thank you very much.
>
> Kind Regards,
> Sunliang Cao
>
>
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