Energy Management and Control of a Marine Electric Propulsion System

Welcome to IEEE VTS Motor Vehicles Challenge 2025

Energy Management and Control of a Marine Electric Propulsion System

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 - Energy Management and Control of a Marine Electric Propulsion System.

Challenge Objective

Motor Vehicle Challenge (MVC), supported by IEEE Vehicular Technology Society, is an annual activity to find an appropriate energy management strategy to improve electric vehicles' performance. For the first time since the MVC launch, the challenge focuses on electric propulsion systems for marine applications. Particularly, the key component of the electric propulsion system considered in this challenge 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.