Volume 9: Sustainable Energy Solutions for Changing the World: Part I

An online state of charge and input current co-estimation method for current sensor-free intelligent cells Zhongbao Wei, Jian Hu, Hongwen He, Xiaofeng Yang

https://doi.org/10.46855/energy-proceedings-7123

Abstract

Recent research progress has witnessed the emergence of intelligent batteries integrating cell-level sensors and controllers for distributed and enhanced management. However, the highly integrated structure rises up multifold concerns over the rigorous thermal condition, and the trade-off between sensing quality and cost. Motivated by this, this paper pursuits the possibility of designing an intelligent battery with the function of state of charge (SOC) self-monitoring without using the current sensor. The essence is to propose a method converting the co-estimation of SOC and input current into a state-space model-based optimization problem, which is virtually solved in a moving horizon framework. Results suggest that the proposed method can realize accurate estimation of the SOC even if freeing the need of integrating a current sensor. The encouraging results are insightful for reducing the structural complexity and lowering down the cost of intelligence batteries.

Keywords intelligent battery, state estimation, moving horizon estimation, current sensor

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