Hardware-in-Loop Assessment of Control Architectures

This paper proposes a method of testing by simulation of automatic control solutions of manufacturing processes that are performed on a mechatronic laboratory line. The method is based on the use of Digital Twin technology and allows the evaluation by simulation of both the hardware infrastructure of the controllers (Hardware in the Loop simulation performed as a system with discrete events) and the efficiency of control procedures (Software in the Loop simulation performed with a Reinforcement Learning algorithm).

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