Julian Timpner and Lars Wolf

2012 Electric Vehicle Conference (IEVC),

Electric vehicles must be easy to use to be accepted by customers and to be successful on the market. One important part of this is the need for comfortable charging and parking.
Especially if the charging of a vehicle takes a certain amount of time, a good solution to simplify the life of the customer is necessary. The V-Charge project has the vision to provide a solution by combining autonomous valet parking with e- mobility, introducing improved parking and charging comfort to increase customer acceptance of electric vehicles. V-Charge proposes a solution for charging autonomous electric vehicles in parking places and efficiently using scarce charging resources.
For the management of the overall system and the provided resources, a server back-end and a communication infrastructure are provided. In this paper, we present our design of a central server back-end that handles the assignment of free parking spots to autonomous electric vehicles and implements scheduling concepts for a coordinated charging strategy. A typical scenario of such a concept might be the automatic drop-off and recovery of a car in front of an airport terminal without taking care of parking or charging in person.

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author={Timpner, Julian and Wolf, Lars},
title={A Back-end System for an Autonomous Parking and Charging System for Electric Vehicles},
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year={2012},
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pages={1--8},
keywords={V-charge project;airport terminal;automatic drop-off concept;autonomous parking system;autonomous valet parking;car recovery;central server back-end system;charging system;coordinated charging strategy;e-mobility;electric vehicle;scarce charging resource;battery powered vehicles;scheduling;},
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Julian Timpner and Lars Wolf

2012 9th ACM international workshop on Vehicular inter-networking, systems, and applications

With the proliferation of electric vehicles, charging stations are a scarce resource that needs to be managed efficiently. In this paper, we therefore examine requirements for efficient charging station scheduling and propose several algorithms that we have implemented for the V-Charge system, which introduces new concepts for combining public and individual transportation, as well as coordinated recharging strategies for electric vehicles. We evaluate these strategies in different usage scenarios using real-world parking statistics.

 


@inproceedings{Timpner:2012:ECS:2307888.2307918,
author = {Timpner, Julian and Wolf, Lars},
title = {Efficient charging station scheduling for an autonomous parking and charging system},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the ninth ACM international workshop on Vehicular inter-networking, systems, and applications},
series = {VANET '12},
year = {2012},
isbn = {978-1-4503-1317-9},
location = {Low Wood Bay, Lake District, UK},
pages = {145--148},
numpages = {4},
url = {https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2307888.2307918},
doi = {10.1145/2307888.2307918},
acmid = {2307918},
publisher = {ACM},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
keywords = {charging station scheduling, electric vehicle, parking management},
}