Tabular Open Circuit Voltage Modelling of Li-Ion Batteries for Robust SOC Estimation

Sneha Sundaresan, Bharath Chandra Devabattini, Pradeep Kumar, Krishna R. Pattipati and Balakumar Balasingam
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Sneha Sundaresan: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Windsor, Windsor, ON N9B 3P4, Canada
Bharath Chandra Devabattini: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Windsor, Windsor, ON N9B 3P4, Canada
Pradeep Kumar: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Windsor, Windsor, ON N9B 3P4, Canada
Krishna R. Pattipati: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA
Balakumar Balasingam: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Windsor, Windsor, ON N9B 3P4, Canada

Energies, 2022, vol. 15, issue 23, 1-23

Abstract: Battery management systems depend on open circuit voltage (OCV) characterization for state of charge (SOC) estimation in real time. The traditional approach to OCV-SOC characterization involves collecting OCV-SOC data from sample battery cells and then fitting a polynomial model to this data. The parameters of these polynomial models are known as the OCV-parameters, or OCV-SOC parameters, in battery management systems and are used for real-time SOC estimation. Even though traditional OCV-SOC characterization approaches are able to abstract the OCV-SOC behavior of a battery in a few parameters, these parameters are only applicable in high precision computing systems. However, many practical battery applications do not have access to high-precision computing resources. The typical approach in a low-precision system is to round the OCV-parameters. This paper highlights the perils of rounding the OCV parameters and proposes an alternative OCV-SOC table. First, several existing OCV-SOC parameters are compared in terms of their expected system requirements and accuracy losses due to rounding. Then, a systematic optimization-based approach is introduced to create an OCV-SOC table that is robust to rounding. A formal performance evaluation metric is introduced to measure the robustness of the resulting OCV-SOC table. It is shown that the OCV-SOC table obtained through the proposed optimization approach outperforms the traditional parametric OCV-SOC models with respect to rounding.

Keywords: battery management system; OCV-SOC characterization; state of charge estimation; polynomial fitting; hardware implementation of algorithms; memory constraints; sampling of functions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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