Special Session #9: IEEE VTS Motor Vehicles Challenge 2023: A Multi-physical Benchmark Problem for Next Generation Energy Management Algorithms

Co-organizer: Jonathan Brembeck, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany
Co-organizer: Ricardo de Castro, UC Merced, USA
Co-organizer: Jakub Tobolář, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

Call for Papers

The IEEE VTS Motor Vehicles Challenge is an annual controller design competition that has been organized in cooperation with the IEEE Vehicle Power and Propulsion Conference (VPPC). In the 2023 edition, the competition is designed by the Deutsches Zentrum für Luft-und Raumfahrt e.V. institute of system dynamics and control and the University of California, Merced. The competitors are invited to develop the energy management algorithm (EMA) for a electric vehicle with two energy storage devices (fuel cell + battery) and three electric motors (modeled in Modelica and using FMI technology); minimization of the energy consumption and battery degradation are some of the main goals of the EMA. Anyone that developed a solution for this competition is encouraged to submit a contribution to this special session.

 

Co-organizer’s Bios

Jonathan Brembeck

Bio: Jonathan Brembeck received his Dipl.-Ing. (M.Sc.) degree in Mechanical Enginering (System Control and Electoronics/Informatics) and his Dr.-Ing. (Ph.D.) in Electrical Engineering from Technical University of Munich, Munich Germany, in 2008 and 2018, respectively.

He started his career as an simulation engineer in the automotive industry. In 2009 he changed to the German Aerospace Center (German NASA equivalent) as a researcher and project leader for robotic electro-mobility ROboMObil. His research interests are the modeling of multiphysical systems, especially for electro mobility and the nonlinear state estimation and control for autonomous vehicles. Since 2014 he has been holding the position as head of Department Vehicle System Dynamics of the Institute of System Dynamics and Control. In 2018 he started as a lecturer at the Technical University of Munich for the simulation of mechatronic systems in particular modeling of electric vehicles.

Dr. Brembeck Jonathan received the eCarTec Award 2012 (Bavarian national award for elctro mobility) for the ROboMObil concept car and was awarded European Satellite Navigation Competition – Special Topic Winner  2011.

 

Ricardo de Castro

Bio: Ricardo de Castro received the Licenciatura and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computers engineering from University of Porto, Faculty of Engineering, Portugal, in 2006 and 2013, respectively. During 2007-2008 he was an entrepreneur with the WeMoveU project, targeting the development of powertrain control solutions for lightweight electric vehicles. From 2013 to 2020, he was with the German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of System Dynamics and Control (SR), where he developed enabling technologies for electric mobility and automated driving. In 2021, he joined University of California, Merced as an assistant professor.

Throughout his career, Ricardo de Castro has been involved in the development of several electric vehicles for research and educational purposes, featuring car-to-car communications and x-by-wire actuators (ROMO), multiple electric motors (uCar and FPGA-based high performance control units (VEP). He has been an expert evaluator for the European Union, Editor of IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Associate Editor of IEEE Access, Guest Editor of the journal Energies and chair of technical tracks on vehicular electronics and intelligent transportation systems, IEEE Vehicle Power and Propulsion Conference (VPPC 2017-2018). Ricardo de Castro is also a Senior Member of the IEEE.

He is the author of three patents, more than 70 papers in international journals, conferences and book chapters, and recipient of two best paper awards.

 

Jakub Tobolář

Bio: Jakub Tobolář received M.Sc. in Mechanical Enginering (automotive) and Ph.D. in the same discipline from Czech Technical University (CTU) in Prague, Czech Republic, in 1996 and 2005, respectively.

Since 1999, he is with German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of System Dynamics and Control and focus his research activity on development, modeling and simulation of novel vehicle chassis concepts. He was a member of Program Committee of several Modelica Conferences.

 

Submission Deadline: 17 April 2023
Acceptance notification: 5 July 2023
Final paper submission deadline EXTENDED: 5 August 2023

To submit a paper to this session, please visit: https://vppc2023.trackchair.com/