PHEV Control Benchmark

Benchmark of control strategies for a Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle

This special benchmark session will consist in the comparison of several control strategies for a PHEV, implemented online on a simulator provided by the organizers.

All teams interested in participating in this benchmark session will be provided with a fully functional simulator of a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle, and will implement a supervisory control strategy to optimize the vehicle fuel consumption. They will be required to submit their control strategies in the form of a Simulink block with a specific format (inputs/outputs/solver). All entries will be accompanied by a presentation and a document describing them, and will be tested and evaluated during this special benchmark session.

The simulator is a quasi-static simulator that accounts for longitudinal vehicle dynamics and battery SOC dynamics, while the engine and electric machines are modeled using stationary maps.

The strategies will be tested using two realistic driving cycles. The battery is completely charged at the beginning of the cycle and a complete recharge is assumed to take place at the end.

The participants will be able to make use of some information about the cycle, namely the (approximate) total distance and average speed, which could be easily retrieved from a GPS device (this information will be included in the simulator).

The evaluation of the strategies will be done on the basis of the fuel and energy consumption for the two cycles, as well as acceleration performance and controller runtime performance.

A complete description of the benchmark is provided here: