Are you ready to put your engineering skills to the test and tackle real-world challenges in digital power technologies? This Industrial Challenge invites student teams to dive into Model-Based Engineering (MBE) and show how modern development workflows can drive innovation in fields like renewable energy, smart grids, microgrids, electrified transportation, and others.
Your mission: design, validate, and implement control and optimization strategies using MBE principles: from early-stage modeling to real-time implementation. Whether you're passionate about AI-driven control, embedded systems, power electronics, or energy systems, this is your chance to shine.
Teams can build on their ongoing research (including papers presented at IECON 2025) or expand on existing examples from the Typhoon HIL Control Center, as long as they push the boundaries and bring meaningful new contributions to the table.
Join us in this challenge and get the chance to learn, grow, and showcase your work to an expert audience. Top teams will receive awards, recognition at the IECON banquet, and the opportunity to win a complete HIL Teaching Station for their university.
Teams of 2 to 5 people (outside team mentoring is allowed).
Open to undergraduate, master's, PhD students, and post-docs.
At least one of the members from the team must have a HIL Specialist 2.0 certification (certificate to be presented together with the deliverables of the first stage). The HIL Specialist 2.0 Specialization Program is free and is to be done online.
Knowledge of control systems, power electronics, embedded systems, or industrial automation is beneficial but not mandatory.
Registration opens: May 19th
Registration closes: June 6th
1st round submission deadline: July 31st
Preliminary results (finalists): September 4th
Final round: during IECON, October 14-17
Participation is free for all participants registered in the IECON 2025 conference.
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