Flexible Automotive Power Management: Formalization of an Auction-based Approach

The electrification of former mechanical components and the expansion of infotainment systems lead to an increasing automotive power network (APN) in terms of components and power consumption. Additionally, customers desire a flexible hardware composition. As a consequence, automotive power management has to ensure power balancing for volatile generation and demand and to support the integration of new hardware during development, vehicle configuration, and even after production. In this paper, we propose an adapted management architecture, formalize an auction framework for automotive power management of APNs with multiple voltage levels, and show respective simulation results.