The Real-Time Digital Simulations (RTS@UNSW) Laboratory is Australia’s premier facility for power system research, focusing on the integration of power electronics and renewable energy. The lab is equipped with a large RTDS real-time simulation system and cutting-edge OPAL-RT, PLECS, Typhoon simulators, enabling advanced research in high-voltage DC networks, smart grids, and modular multilevel converters. Our work bridges academia and industry, fostering innovations that are shaping the future of power systems. 

We cover research and industry projects in the areas 

• High-voltage DC networks.

• Multi-terminal DC grids

• Power System Protection Relay Testing

• Renewable Energy Systems Controller testing

• Smart Grids

• Microgrids.

• Renewable Energy Systems.

• Distributed Generation

• Power Electronics.

• Control System Testing.

• Controller Hardware-in-the-loop

• Power Hardware-in-the-loop Testing.

The RTS Lab @ UNSW Sydney features: 

• 1x RTDS NovaCor

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• 1x 18-rack RTDS system with 90 PB5 processor boards

  • Among Largest RTDS in academic and research institutions globally

  • 216  Analogue input and output channels

  • 1152 digital optically isolated input and output channels

  • 4 three-phase Omicron amplifiers for secondary injection testing of protection relays

  • 2 Schneider Electric Easergy P3 Protection Relay for Protection Hardware in the loop testing 

  • PMU and IEC61850 emulation 

  • PMU hardware in the loop

• 1x OPAL-RT OP5033-XG

• 1x OPAL-RT OP5600 - OP5607 

  • 6+1 cores enabled HyperSIM simulation - the largest HyperSIM Simulator in Australia

  • 15000 node RMS simulation capabilities with OPAL-RT's ePHASORsim

  • Real-time simulation of Modular Multilevel Converters with up to 100 SM in each arm

• 6x Plexim PLECSBox

• 1x Plexim PLECSBox

• 1x TyphoonHiL 604

  • including a HiLConnect Controller set

• 1x TyphoonHiL 602

• 4x  OPAL-RT OP4500

  • Simulation of Power Electronics at us resolution

  • Expansion of our main OP5600 simulator

  • 2 fully enabled simulation cores for control and power system real-time simulations in each OP4500
    
    

RTS@UNSW is connected to the Power Electronics Research Laboratory via two optical fiber links. This allows us to complete power hardware-in-the-loop testing of physical equipment using our Regatron TC.ACS.50.480.400 four quadrant grid simulators, the microgrid located in the lab as well as our complete range of multilevel converters.