ChargeCar

ChargeCar: "One of the broad objectives of ChargeCar is to produce an intelligent supercapacitor-battery system whose management system is unique to individual commutes. This requires algorithms that are tailored to specific trips, and in keeping with our focus on community, we are inviting you to have a hand in designing these algorithms.

We are having a contest to open up this design task to everybody. The goal of this contest is to minimize the battery duty over all of the provided trips. You can read more about the impact we can have on battery duty in our paper.

To participate, you can download our program (written in Ruby). The program also comes with a set of data files to work with and some documentation for detail on functionality. When your submission is complete, please email us with the following details:

* Name
* A brief description of what your algorithm does


For your submission to be valid, it must match all of the following requirements:

* Your program must be self-contained (not dependent on other programs or processes in order to run)
* Since this program must be light enough to run on an electric car's onboard computer, the power predictions must be produced in less than a second per data point.
* Your program must be well commented and if you modify the code outside of the designated algorithm region, please specifically describe the rationale for doing so when you submit your program.


The current leader will be acknowledged on our website. Thank you for your valuable contribution to our project!



ChargeCar is a project from the CREATE Lab at Carnegie Mellon University"