The Motor Vehicles Challenge Award will be given to the best performing team in the IEEE VTS Motor Vehicles Challenge held in conjunction with the annual IEEE Vehicle Power and Propulsion Conference (VPPC).
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Single annual award with multiple recipients with one topic per year. The award consists in a plaque, and a certificate, and travel reimbursement to attend the IEEE VPPC conference. All travel expenses must comply with IEEE and VTS travel policies and reimbursement procedures, and conference registration fees cannot be claimed as a travel expense. The claim for travel expenses must be submitted no later than 3 weeks after the end of the conference.
Funded by the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society operational budget. The total budget is yearly assigned by the Board of Governors of the Society. The amount of the award will be yearly assigned by the VP Motor Vehicles. Unused budget will be returned to the operational budget of the Society.
The award will be presented to the winning team during the annual IEEE VPPC conference. Alternatively, the award may be presented at the spring and fall editions of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference.
Any team composed of up to three IEEE Vehicular Technology Society members at the time of challenge registration.
2025
Winner: Energy Storage Lab, National University of Singapore
Strategy: Energy Management and Control of a Marine Electric Propulsion System
2024
Winner :
Grupo de Electrónica Aplicada (GEA), IITEMA, CONICETUNRC (Rio Cuarto - Argentina)
Strategy:
Loss Minimization Algorithm Based Strategy for EV Hybrid Energy Storage System Optimization
2023
Winner:
EDLab Sharks, University of Padova, Italy
strategy:
Multi‐physical Energy Management Algorithm
2022
Winner:
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Cagliari, Italy
Strategy:
Optimal Sizing and Management of a Hybrid Energy Storage System for Full-Electric Vehicles
2021
Winner:
University of Porto Portugal) & University of Merced California (USA)
Strategy:
Pragmatic Energy Management Strategy
2020
Winner:
Tu Wien (Austria)
Strategy:
Rule-Based Energy Management Strategy of Fuel Cell/Ultracapacitor/Battery Vehicles:
2019
Winner:
Universidad Industrial de Santander, Bucaramanga, Colombia
Strategy:
Rule based
2018
Winner:
Hanyang University, South Korea,
Strategy:
Pontryagin’s Minimum Principle
2017
Winner:
Universidad Nacional del Sur (UNS), Bahía Blanca, Argentina
Strategy:
Rule based augmented with a Proportional+Integral controller