scholarly journals Leveraging Cell Expansion Sensing in State of Charge Estimation: Practical Considerations

Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (10) ◽  
pp. 2653 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miriam A. Figueroa-Santos ◽  
Jason B. Siegel ◽  
Anna G. Stefanopoulou

Measurements such as current and terminal voltage that are typically used to determine the battery’s state of charge (SOC) are augmented with measured force associated with electrode expansion as the lithium intercalates in its structure. The combination of the sensed behavior is shown to improve SOC estimation even for the lithium ion iron phosphate (LFP) chemistry, where the voltage–SOC relation is flat (low slope) making SOC estimation using measured voltage difficult. For the LFP cells, the measured force has a non-monotonic F–SOC relationship. This presents a challenge for estimation as multiple force values can correspond to the same SOC. The traditional linear quadratic estimator can be driven to an incorrect SOC value. To address these difficulties, a novel switching estimation gain is used based on determining the operating region that corresponds to the actual SOC. Moreover, a drift in the measured force associated with a shift of the cell SOC–expansion behavior over time is addressed with a bias estimator for the force signal. The performance of Voltage-based (V) and Voltage and Force-based (V&F) SOC estimation algorithms are then compared and evaluated against a desired ± 5 % absolute error bound of the SOC using a dynamic stress test current protocol that tests the proposed estimation scheme across wide range of SOC and current rates.

2021 ◽  
Vol 2109 (1) ◽  
pp. 012005
Author(s):  
Zhenya Wang ◽  
Xiaodong Li ◽  
Yahui Wang

Abstract Aiming at the problem of gradient disappearance and gradient explosion in the recurrent neural network (RNN) algorithm in the battery estimation model, this paper proposes a state of charge (SOC) estimation model developed using an independent recurrent neural network (IndRNN). Firstly, the Thevenin equivalent model of the battery is established, and the parameters of the equivalent model are identified through experiments. Then, the Relu activation function is introduced into the RNN to separate the neurons in each layer. Finally, the model was trained on various experimental data sets collected from the lithium iron phosphate battery experimental platform under different discharge conditions. Without any prior knowledge about the battery interior, the proposed battery model successfully characterizes the non-linear behavior of the battery. The results show that under different discharge conditions, IndRNN is better than RNN in terms of maximum error, the mean error, and the root mean square error (RMSE), which greatly improves the accuracy of SOC estimation.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Hannan ◽  
Dickson How ◽  
M. S. Hossain Lipu ◽  
M Mansor ◽  
Pin Ker ◽  
...  

Abstract Accurate state of charge (SOC) estimation of lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries is crucial in prolonging cell lifespan and ensuring its safe operation for electric vehicle applications. In this article, we propose the deep learning-based transformer model trained with self-supervised learning (SSL) for end-to-end SOC estimation without the requirements of feature engineering or adaptive filtering. We demonstrate that with the SSL framework, the proposed deep learning-enabled transformer model achieves the lowest root-mean-square-error (RMSE) of 1.2% and a mean-absolute-error (MAE) of 0.7% on the test dataset at various ambient temperatures. With SSL, the proposed model can be trained with as few as 5 epochs using only 20% of the total training data and still achieves less than 1.9% RMSE on the test data. Finally, we also demonstrate that the learning weights during the SSL training can be transferred to a new Li-ion cell with different chemistry and still achieve on-par performance compared to the models trained from scratch on the new cell.


2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 123
Author(s):  
Wei Li ◽  
Maji Luo ◽  
Yaqian Tan ◽  
Xiangyu Cui

The state of charge (SOC) of a lithium-ion battery plays a key role in ensuring the charge and discharge energy control strategy, and SOC estimation is the core part of the battery management system for safe and efficient driving of electric vehicles. In this paper, a model-based SOC estimation strategy based on the Adaptive Cubature Kalman filter (ACKF) is studied for lithium-ion batteries. In the present study, the dual polarization (DP) model is employed for SOC estimation and the vector forgetting factor recursive least squares (VRLS) method is utilized for model parameter online identification. The ACKF is then designed to estimate the battery’s SOC. Finally, the Urban Dynamometer Driving Schedule and Dynamic Stress Test are utilized to evaluate the performance of the proposed method by comparing with results obtained using the extended Kalman filter (EKF) and the cubature Kalman filter (CKF) algorithms. The simulation and experimental results show that the proposed ACKF algorithm combined with VRLS-based model identification is a promising SOC estimation approach. The proposed algorithm is found to provide more accurate SOC estimation with satisfying stability than the extended EKF and CKF algorithms.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
M. A. Hannan ◽  
D. N. T. How ◽  
M. S. Hossain Lipu ◽  
M. Mansor ◽  
Pin Jern Ker ◽  
...  

AbstractAccurate state of charge (SOC) estimation of lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries is crucial in prolonging cell lifespan and ensuring its safe operation for electric vehicle applications. In this article, we propose the deep learning-based transformer model trained with self-supervised learning (SSL) for end-to-end SOC estimation without the requirements of feature engineering or adaptive filtering. We demonstrate that with the SSL framework, the proposed deep learning transformer model achieves the lowest root-mean-square-error (RMSE) of 0.90% and a mean-absolute-error (MAE) of 0.44% at constant ambient temperature, and RMSE of 1.19% and a MAE of 0.7% at varying ambient temperature. With SSL, the proposed model can be trained with as few as 5 epochs using only 20% of the total training data and still achieves less than 1.9% RMSE on the test data. Finally, we also demonstrate that the learning weights during the SSL training can be transferred to a new Li-ion cell with different chemistry and still achieve on-par performance compared to the models trained from scratch on the new cell.


Complexity ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Zheng Liu ◽  
Yuan Qiu ◽  
Chunshan Yang ◽  
Jianbo Ji ◽  
Zhenhua Zhao

With the widespread application of electric vehicles, the study of the power lithium-ion battery (LIB) has broad prospects and great academic significance. The state of charge (SOC) is one of the key parts in battery management system (BMS), which is used to provide guarantee for the safe and efficient operation of LIB. To obtain the reliable SOC estimation result under the influence of simple model and measurement noise, a novel estimation method with adaptive feedback compensator is presented in this paper. The simplified dynamic external electrical characteristic of LIB is represented by the one-order Thevenin equivalent circuit model (ECM) and then the ECM parameters are identified by the forgetting factor recursive least squares method (FFRLS). Fully taking into account the feedback effect of terminal voltage innovation, the combination of adaptive extended Kalman filter (AEKF) and innovation vector-based proportional-integral-derivative (PID) feedback is proposed to estimate the LIB SOC. The common single proportional feedback of Kalman filter (KF) is replaced by the innovation vector-based PID feedback, which means that the multiple prior terminal voltage innovation is used in the measurement correction step of KF. The results reveal that the AEKF with PID feedback compensation strategy can improve the SOC estimation performance compared with the common AEKF, and it reveals good robust capability and rapid convergence speed for initial SOC errors. The maximum absolute error and average absolute error for SOC estimation are close to 4% and 2.6%, respectively.


Author(s):  
Meng Wei ◽  
Min Ye ◽  
Jia Bo Li ◽  
Qiao Wang ◽  
Xin Xin Xu

State of charge (SOC) of the lithium-ion batteries is one of the key parameters of the battery management system, which the performance of SOC estimation guarantees energy management efficiency and endurance mileage of electric vehicles. However, accurate SOC estimation is a difficult problem owing to complex chemical reactions and nonlinear battery characteristics. In this paper, the method of the dynamic neural network is used to estimate the SOC of the lithium-ion batteries, which is improved based on the classic close-loop nonlinear auto-regressive models with exogenous input neural network (NARXNN) model, and the open-loop NARXNN model considering expected output is proposed. Since the input delay, feedback delay, and hidden layer of the dynamic neural network are usually selected by empirically, which affects the estimation performance of the dynamic neural network. To cover this weakness, sine cosine algorithm (SCA) is used for global optimal dynamic neural network parameters. Then, the experimental results are verified to obtain the effectiveness and robustness of the proposed method under different conditions. Finally, the dynamic neural network based on SCA is compared with unscented Kalman filter (UKF), back propagation neural network based on particle swarm optimization (BPNN-PSO), least-squares support vector machine (LS-SVM), and Gaussian process regression (GPR), the results show that the proposed dynamic neural network based on SCA is superior to other methods.


Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 1054
Author(s):  
Kuo Yang ◽  
Yugui Tang ◽  
Zhen Zhang

With the development of new energy vehicle technology, battery management systems used to monitor the state of the battery have been widely researched. The accuracy of the battery status assessment to a great extent depends on the accuracy of the battery model parameters. This paper proposes an improved method for parameter identification and state-of-charge (SOC) estimation for lithium-ion batteries. Using a two-order equivalent circuit model, the battery model is divided into two parts based on fast dynamics and slow dynamics. The recursive least squares method is used to identify parameters of the battery, and then the SOC and the open-circuit voltage of the model is estimated with the extended Kalman filter. The two-module voltages are calculated using estimated open circuit voltage and initial parameters, and model parameters are constantly updated during iteration. The proposed method can be used to estimate the parameters and the SOC in real time, which does not need to know the state of SOC and the value of open circuit voltage in advance. The method is tested using data from dynamic stress tests, the root means squared error of the accuracy of the prediction model is about 0.01 V, and the average SOC estimation error is 0.0139. Results indicate that the method has higher accuracy in offline parameter identification and online state estimation than traditional recursive least squares methods.


Electronics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 122
Author(s):  
Peipei Xu ◽  
Junqiu Li ◽  
Chao Sun ◽  
Guodong Yang ◽  
Fengchun Sun

The accurate estimation of a lithium-ion battery’s state of charge (SOC) plays an important role in the operational safety and driving mileage improvement of electrical vehicles (EVs). The Adaptive Extended Kalman filter (AEKF) estimator is commonly used to estimate SOC; however, this method relies on the precise estimation of the battery’s model parameters and capacity. Furthermore, the actual capacity and battery parameters change in real time with the aging of the batteries. Therefore, to eliminate the influence of above-mentioned factors on SOC estimation, the main contributions of this paper are as follows: (1) the equivalent circuit model (ECM) is presented, and the parameter identification of ECM is performed by using the forgetting-factor recursive-least-squares (FFRLS) method; (2) the sensitivity of battery SOC estimation to capacity degradation is analyzed to prove the importance of considering capacity degradation in SOC estimation; and (3) the capacity degradation model is proposed to perform the battery capacity prediction online. Furthermore, an online adaptive SOC estimator based on capacity degradation is proposed to improve the robustness of the AEKF algorithm. Experimental results show that the maximum error of SOC estimation is less than 1.3%.


Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (11) ◽  
pp. 3284
Author(s):  
Ingvild B. Espedal ◽  
Asanthi Jinasena ◽  
Odne S. Burheim ◽  
Jacob J. Lamb

Energy storage systems (ESSs) are critically important for the future of electric vehicles. Despite this, the safety and management of ESSs require improvement. Battery management systems (BMSs) are vital components in ESS systems for Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). One parameter that is included in the BMS is the state-of-charge (SoC) of the battery. SoC has become an active research area in recent years for battery electric vehicle (BEV) LIBs, yet there are some challenges: the LIB configuration is nonlinear, making it hard to model correctly; it is difficult to assess internal environments of a LIB (and this can be different in laboratory conditions compared to real-world conditions); and these discrepancies can lead to raising the instability of the LIB. Therefore, further advancement is required in order to have higher accuracy in SoC estimation in BEV LIBs. SoC estimation is a key BMS feature, and precise modeling and state estimation will improve stable operation. This review discusses current methods use in BEV LIB SoC modelling and estimation. The review culminates in a brief discussion of challenges in BEV LIB SoC prediction analysis.


Electronics ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (11) ◽  
pp. 321 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xin Lai ◽  
Wei Yi ◽  
Yuejiu Zheng ◽  
Long Zhou

In this paper, a novel model parameter identification method and a state-of-charge (SOC) estimator for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) are proposed to improve the global accuracy of SOC estimation in the all SOC range (0–100%). Firstly, a subregion optimization method based on particle swarm optimization is developed to find the optimal model parameters of LIBs in each subregion, and the optimal number of subregions is investigated from the perspective of accuracy and computation time. Then, to solve the problem of a low accuracy of SOC estimation caused by large model error in the low SOC range, an improved extended Kalman filter (IEKF) algorithm with variable noise covariance is proposed. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed methods are verified by experiments on two kinds of batteries under three working cycles, and case studies show that the proposed IEKF has better accuracy and robustness than the traditional extended Kalman filter (EKF) in the all SOC range.


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