- Subcommittees -
1. IoT sensor compliance for vehicle and battery management
Chair: Kim Fung Tsang, ee330015@cityu.edu.hk, City University, HongKong
Description:
Future research on vehicles demands the use of Internet of Things (IoT), for instance, autonomous vehicle driving and battery management. In recent years, IoT has experienced explosive growth. Objects have achieved interconnection and communication with each other, and more efficient management and control can then be implemented. Sensors at this point have no standard or compliance; thus, it is desperate to develop compliance for IoT sensors for vehicle and battery management.
2. Wireless Power Transfer for Energy Storage Charging
Chair: Ming Liu, ml45@princeton.edu, Princeton University, USA
Description:
The wireless charging subcommittee aims at providing an open platform to exchange ideas and build collaborations among experts from academy and industry interested in wireless charging applications. The main goal is on various wireless charging technologies, including, but not limited to, inductive coupling, capacitive coupling, RF and microwave, laser, optical wireless charging. An important goal of the wireless charging subcommittee is the dissemination of up-to-date research achievements and new ideas related to the topics of interest for the energy storage TC. On these topics, the wireless charging subcommittee promotes the organization of special sessions on IEEE-IES Transactions and Conferences, as well as tutorials and workshops.
3. Hybrid Energy Storage Systems
Chair: Mario Porru, mario.porru@diee.unica.it, University of Cagliari, Italy
Description:
The wide range of applications in which Energy Storage Systems (ESSs) are employed requires from them different features and properties, which cannot be always satisfied by a single energy storage technology. Hybrid Energy Storage Systems (HESSs) aim at solving this issue by coupling two or more energy storage technologies with complementary features, in order to exploit their advantages and relieve their weaknesses at the same time. Batteries and supercapacitors are probably the most famous combination, but several other solutions are being employed, such as fuel cells and batteries and/or supercapacitors, batteries and flywheels, batteries and superconducting ESS. However, coupling two or more ESSs brings a higher complexity, in terms of number of components, topology, energy management strategies and costs. Hence, researchers are focused on making HESS affordable from both technical and economic points of view, through novel HESS configurations that simplify the topology, integrated solutions that reduce the number of components, optimal management and control strategies for enhanced power flows.
The subcommittee on Hybrid Energy Storage Systems stimulates the interest of the scientific community on HESS research, by promoting collaborations between its members, offering a platform for information exchange, contributing to conference and workshop organization and to editorial activities.