IEEE VTS Motor Vehicles Challenge 2025

Energy Management and Control of a Marine Electric Propulsion System

Welcome to VTS Motor Vehicles Challenge 2025

The IEEE Vehicular Technology Society, the University of Cagliari, and the University of Padua are proud to launch the IEEE VTS Motor Vehicles Challenge 2025.

Objective Challenge

IEEE VTS Motor Vehicles Challenge (MVC) is an annual activity that has been organized in cooperation with the IEEE Vehicle Power and Propulsion Conference (VPPC) since 2017. This ninth event is focused on an electric propulsion system for marine applications. Particularly, the key component of the proposed system is a dual three-phase permanent magnet synchronous machine, whose windings are supplied by a battery pack and a supercapacitor module through appropriate DC/DC and DC/AC converters.

Thereby, the MVC 2025 participants should propose an energy management strategy that splits the power demand among its two windings, each of which is supplied by a different energy storage unit, by minimizing a given cost function.

The participating teams will be invited to present their solutions in a special session of the IEEE-VPPC 2025.

Important Dates and Registration

Registration: 3 March 2025. Please register at: https://forms.office.com/e/xeQhgBKJtp

Submission: 10 March 2025

Results: 31 March 2025