Ruled-Based Energy Management Strategy for a Fuel-Cell Battery Vehicle

The IEEE VTS motor vehicle challenge aims to find innovative and efficient ways to manage a fuel-cell (FC) vehicle's energy using a battery as energy buffer. Competitors have submitted a strategy to manage the energy of a specific vehicle as effectively as possible. This paper explains a way to manage the FC and the Li-ion battery set powering the vehicle to minimize the cost of a driving cycle. The cost takes into account both the hydrogen consumption and the ageing of the battery. Keywords - VTS Motor Vehicles Challenge 2017, Fuel Cell vehicle, energy management strategy.