Tests on the test bench are resource-intensive, time-consuming and expensive. We enable tests with virtual prototypes of heat pumps, refrigerators or energy systems in general. This increases your test coverage, improves the quality of your control software and avoids errors in the field.

Modelling thermal systems such as refrigeration circuits in heat pumps is extremely complex. That's why control systems are often tested as they were 40 years ago: in elaborate experiments on test benches in the laboratory.

In contrast, hardware-in-the-loop (HiL) tests have long been established in the development of controllers for mechanical and electronic systems. Here, the controlled system is virtually mapped as a simulation model. In this w ...