Q1 Project 1: Charging Stations of the Future
January ’25 Update
Project leads: Hongjie Wang, Utah State University, & Scott Trimboli, University of Colorado-Colorado Springs
Events:
NAPS hosted by ASPIRE at UTEP
The 56th North American Power Symposium (NAPS) was hosted by The University of Texas at El Paso on October 13-15, 2024. NAPS is a student-centric technical conference in the electrical power and energy engineering. The University of Texas at El Paso was selected through a competitive bidding process by the 2021 NAPS Steering Committee during their meeting in College Station, TX. NAPS has been an active symposium since its inception in 1969 as the Midwest Power Symposium and later renamed as North American Power Symposium in 1986. NAPS has been held annually at one of the universities in North America to provide an international open forum for participants from academia and industry. Student participation is the gem of this symposium leading to graduate and undergraduate student interactions with their peers in other universities as well as the exchange of knowledge with faculty and industry. Dr. Yuanrui Sang, who previously co-led ASPIRE’s Project 3: Systems of Systems, and Dr. Paras Mandal, ASPIRE Co-Lead Power Research Area, were the Organizing Committee Chair and Co-Chair of NAPS2024, respectively.
IEEE ECE conference in Phoenix, AZ in October
At the IEEE ECE conference in Phoenix, Arizona in October, several of our faculty, staff, students and alumni participated and presented. Several awards were received for their innovative contributions towards improving technologies in Energy and Transportation.
View the full article highlighting their achievements.
Advanced Automotive Battery Conference in Las Vegas, NV in December
The annual Advanced Automotive Battery Conference (AABC) took place in Las Vegas, Nevada this past December. Profs. Gregory L. Plett and M. Scott Trimboli conducted a 90-minute tutorial session entitled “Battery Management Systems and Charging”, where members of both industry and academia discovered state-of-the-art approaches to creating accurate mathematical models of lithium-ion batteries and designing advanced control strategies for safe and effective fast-charge. Each professor also presented separate talks, with Prof. Plett’s entitled, “Sensitivity of Lithium-Ion Battery SOH Estimates to Sensor Measurement Error and Latency”, and Prof. Trimboli’s talk addressing, “Perspectives on Employing Physics-based Battery Modeling and Management for Electric Vehicles”. Their participation in this important annual event showcases the highly regarded battery research program at University of Colorado Colorado Springs and the important contributions this research brings to the ASPIRE Engineering Research Center.
Publications:
- “Optimized Timing Control for Leading-Edge Aligned Modulation of a T-Type Bridge in Unfolding-Based AC-DC Converters”
- Shubhangi Gurudiwan, Aditya Zade, Hongjie Wong, & Regan Zane
- https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10787264/
- “Power Scheduling and Cost Optimization of a Grid Integrated PV and BESS Fast Charging using SARSA Reinforcement Learning”
- Arifa Sultana, Xiang Ma, Rose Qingyang Hu, & Hongjie Wang
- https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10756801
- “DER-Intergrated Grid Operations Under Extreme Weather Events Incorporating DWPT System”
- Sajedeh Darvishi Niafenderi, Paras Mandal, Hongjie Wang, & Regan Zane
- https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10741701
- “DWPT-Integrated Microscopic Traffic Flow for Distribution Grid Voltage Stability Analysis”
- Travis Newbolt, Paras Mandal, Hongjie Wang, & Regan Zane
- https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10741859
- “Load Demand Modeling of Large-Scale Charging Infrastructure for Electric Vehicles In-Motion”
- Travis Newbolt, Mckay Waite, Paras Mandal, Hongjie Wang, & Regan Zane
- https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10750800
- “Longitudinal Monitoring of Electric Vehicle Travel Trends Using Connected Vehicle Data”
- Jairaj Desai, Jijo K. Mathew, Nathaniel J. Sturdevant, & Darcy M. Bullock
- https://www.mdpi.com/2032-6653/15/12/560
- Undergraduate Poster Presentation at the IMECE 2024 in Portland, OR in November 2024
- Plus one journal paper was accepted by the Journal of High School Science
Additional Highlights:
Toolbox updates
For use by all ASPIRE members and researchers for energy storage research, the state-of-the-art Battery Modeling and Simulation Software has been developed. The modeling component is ready for use, while the control component, also known as the model predictive control (MPC) software component, is in the final testing stage and a user manual is being drafted. This software has been engineered for precision and is powered by advanced algorithms to predict, optimize, and characterize battery performance for a wide range of embedded simulation and analysis applications. The ASPIRE Battery Modeling and Simulation Software examines expected battery behavior, fine-tunes battery models, shortens time-to-market, and grants access to deeper insights into battery dynamics while exploring new possibilities for breakthrough innovations.
ASPIRE Power Co-Lead to Direct new Consortium for Research and Education in Power and Energy Systems (CREPES)
The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) was awarded with a new $2M five-year grant from DOE-NNSA. Dr. Paras Mandal, ASPIRE Co-Lead Power Thrust, is the UTEP-CREPES Director to lead this project where he will be training several students (both at undergraduate and graduate levels) in the area of power and cyber-physical systems. As a UTEP-PI, Dr. Mandal will be collaborating with the partnering institutions, Florida International University (lead institution) and Alabama Agriculture and Mechanical University, along with national laboratories (SNL, LLNL, and PNNL).
Student Grad Highlights
- Congratulations to students Kaylie N. Maddux and Craig A. Chambers for graduating with their master’s degree.
- We’d also like to welcome Suchita Anil Undare, the new treasurer for the Student Leadership Council through the annual meeting this fall.
Additional Information
More information concerning the Charging Stations of the Future’s pilot deployments, including the 1 MW charger in Utah, is found on the Utah Pilot page.