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It is widely accepted that the variation of ambient temperature has great influence on the battery model parameters and state-of-charge (SOC) estimation, and the accurate SOC estimation is a significant issue for developing the battery management system in electric vehicles. To address this problem, in this paper we propose an enhanced equivalent circuit model (ECM) considering the influence of different ambient temperatures on the open-circuit voltage for a lithium–ion battery. Based on this model, the exponential-function fitting method is adopted to identify the battery parameters according to the test data collected from the experimental platform. And then, the extended Kalman filter (EKF) algorithm is employed to estimate the battery SOC of this battery ECM. The performance of the proposed ECM is verified by using the test profiles of hybrid pulse power characterization (HPPC) and the standard US06 driving cycles (US06) at various ambient temperatures, and by comparing with the common ECM with a second-order resistance capacitor. The simulation and experimental results show that the enhanced battery ECM can improve the battery SOC estimation accuracy under different operating conditions.
Recently, lithium–ion batteries (LIBs) have been widely and extensively used in electric vehicles (EVs) due to their merits such as high energy density, no memory effect, low self-discharge, and long lifespan as opposed to the other types of batteries including lead acid, nickel metal hydride, and nickel cadmium.[1–6] To guarantee the safe and reliable operation of battery packs, it is essential to provide accurate and prompt battery state information like terminal output voltage (TOV) and state of charge (SOC) through battery management system (BMS). Moreover, it should be noticed that due to variable operating conditions for EVs, especially at higher or lower ambient temperatures, battery capacity, internal resistance, and other parameters will accordingly change, which brings about some difficulties in predicting the battery internal stats and SOC.
To estimate battery SOC, many scholars have developed various model-based estimation approaches like electrochemical models[7–10] and equivalent circuit models (ECMs).[11–14] Here in this paper, the electrochemical models are based on the first-principles theory, which describe the micro-reactions inside LIBs in depth, and have a clearer physical meaning. However, they have a complex structure based on partial differential equations, often necessitating model simplification or reduction.[8, 15, 16] The ECMs are commonly used in the BMS because they can reduce the complexities in parameter identification, SOC estimation, and control design for battery various operations. Nevertheless, the parameters of the ECMs are derived from empirical electric circuit structure and have no immediate electrochemical meaning, which could cause larger errors especially at low SOC region.[17, 18]
Besides, in recent years, many studies on the battery temperature have been found in the relevant literature.[19–22] Chuang et al.[19] proposed a temperature-compensated model of lithium–ion polymer batteries for SOC estimation in medical devices by considering temperature effects in a range from 37 °C to 40 °C. Liu et al.[20] designed a temperature-compensated battery model with a dual-particle-filter estimator to improve the SOC estimation against parameter perturbations caused by the ambient temperature and noise interference caused by the drift current. Lu et al.[21] proposed an integrated SOC algorithm that combines an advanced ampere-hour counting method and multistate open-circuit voltage (OCV) method. Luo et al.[22] proposed an offset item to develop the observer equation in the estimation model to address the precision at lower ambient temperatures. Therefore, it is easily concluded that ambient temperature is a considerable factor for battery TOV and SOC estimation.
However, a few of issues have been rarely discussed in the existing literature. First, the variation of OCV–SOC is practically dependent on the ambient temperature, while it is usually ignored. In other words, the OCV–SOC relationship at a certain temperature would yield a lager error if it is employed in the other ambient temperature. Second, the battery parameter, especially battery impedance, is greatly affected by the ambient temperature.[23] Yet, it is always assumed to be a constant in most of the existing literature. Third, the differences between the OCV–SOCs for a battery under charge and discharge conditions are seldom considered and discussed in previous literature, and the hysteresis phenomena of battery OCV are usually neglected during different cycles.
To address these problems, Xing et al.[24] developed an off-line OCV–SOC temperature table based on the internal resistance model to describe only the effects of ambient temperature on OCV. The experimental results indicated that the estimation based on the developed model provides more accurate SOC with smaller root mean squared error (RMSE) and mean absolute error (MAE) at various temperatures. Yang et al.[25] established a correction scheme for the temperature dependence of OCV, capacity, and resistor–capacitor (RC) parameters in the estimator, but it is only suitable for transient response of LIBs with short time constant. Du et al.[26] established a temperature-compensation model in a wide temperature range from 0 °C to 40 °C, in which fully considered are the effects of SOC and ambient temperature on the Ohmic internal resistance and polarization capacitance, but it did not reflect the effects of ambient temperature on the polarization capacitance with a long time constant. And the OCV hysteresis phenomenon caused by charge and discharge conditions and C-rate was ignored. To sum up, accurate battery model can provide SOC estimation for the model-based SOC estimation method with higher accuracy, especially when considering the influence of ambient temperature.
Consequently, this study focuses on constructing an enhanced equivalent circuit model (ECM) considering the influence of ambient temperature on the open-circuit voltage for a lithium–ion battery, which is derived from the second order resistor–capacitor equivalent circuit model (2RC-ECM). The main contributions of this study are summarized as follows. (i) By considering the influence of ambient temperature characteristics on the electrical dynamics performances of LIBs, a temperature-sensitive resistor Rtemp is added to the 2RC-ECM to describe the change of battery impedance with ambient temperature; (ii) By considering the charge and discharge OCV–SOC relationship under different ambient temperatures, the parameter identification and SOC estimation are conducted with the help of exponential function fitting (EFF) method and extended Kalman filter (EKF) algorithm, respectively.
The remainder of this paper is organized as follows. In Section 2 introduced are the battery experiment and data capturing under different test scenarios. The battery modeling and parameter identification are depicted in Section 3. And the EKF-based SOC estimation procedure is presented in Section 4. Some conclusions are drawn from this study in Section 5.
The battery experimental setup is shown in Fig.
It should be particularly pointed out that the OCV–SOC trajectories are generally dependent on the ambient temperature,[24, 25, 27] and the test procedure at each temperature is described as follows.
The common 2RC-ECM is widely used in LIBs modeling and SOC estimation due to these merits like higher calculation efficiency, easy implementation in engineering, and better simulation of battery dynamics behaviors.[1–3, 18, 29] As can be seen from Fig.
Unlike the common 2RC-ECM of LIB cell, Rtemp is used to describe the change of battery impedance with ambient temperature, and the OCV is considered as a function of battery SOC and ambient temperature, which is denoted by UOC(SOC,T), thus this enhanced battery model is composed of Rtemp, Ohmic internal resistance R0, two parallel RC networks connected in series (i.e., R1–C1 and R2–C2), and the battery TOV denoted as Ut, with the applied current density being It.
Here in this work, according to the Kirchhoff’s laws, we can construct the state-space equations for describing the relationships among capacitor, voltage, and current of this battery, and are described mathematically as follows:
In this part, the HPPC test profiles are utilized to perform the parameters identification and the hysteresis phenomenon of battery OCV under charging and discharging profiles are taken into account. For R0, when the battery is discharged at each pulse, the battery TOV will drop instantaneously, denoted by UA–UB, on the contrary, when the battery is charged at each pulse, the battery TOV will jump instantaneously, denoted by UC–UD, see Fig.
According to Eq. (
Moreover, according to Eq. (
By comparing the corresponding coefficients between Eq. (
According to the above-mentioned procedure, we can further obtain the identified parameters under charging and discharging as listed in Tables
On the other hand, to further reveal the variations of the final identified parameters with ambient temperature, the curves of R0, Rtemp, R1, C1, R2, and C2 versus T are fitted by using the cubic polynomials under discharge and charge conditions as shown in Fig.
Note that the left and right values in each row for Tables
It is noted that the blue asterisk (
Additionally, it is observed from Fig.
To verify the accuracy of the identified parameters, the measured and estimated battery TOV from the 2RC-ECM and this enhanced model under HPPC and US06 profiles at 25 °C are shown in Figs.
It can be observed that the enhanced battery model can well predict the battery TOV, especially from Figs.
Note that the left and right values in each row of Tables
Moreover, in order to obtain the accuracy of SOC estimation for the enhanced battery ECM and the common 2RC-ECM, in Tables
Due to its merits of providing higher accuracy and lower calculation cost, the EKF algorithm has been widely used to perform the parameter identification and SOC estimation in BMS.[34, 35] It should be noted that the key point of the EKF algorithm is to minimize the error between the measured result and the simulated model output through a Kalman gain for a nonlinear Gaussian noise system with recursive algorithm. In order to apply EKF algorithm to the SOC estimation of the enhanced battery model, we need to present a general framework for the discrete-time state and measurement dynamic equations as follows:
First, for the enhanced battery model shown in Fig.
Next, define the system state
Finally, the discrete-time state-space equations of the enhanced battery model are depicted as
Note that
To facilitate the understanding of the EKF-based SOC estimation procedure, we present the implementation flowchart of the EKF-based SOC estimation approach used in this enhanced battery model, which is shown in Fig.
In this subsection, to reveal the advantages of this enhanced battery model with respect to the SOC estimation, the values of SOC are estimated from the 2RC-ECM and the enhanced battery model by incorporating the EKF approach, which is denoted as
Figure
As is well known, the ambient temperature usually exerts a significant influence on the model parameters and SOC estimation for lithium–ion battery. In this paper, an enhanced battery model is proposed with considering the influence of ambient temperature on the battery OCV. A temperature-sensitive resistor is introduced to describe the influence of ambient temperature on the change of battery impedance. Besides, the EEF method is adopted to identify the offline battery internal states, and a cubic polynomial function is utilized to fit the highly nonlinear relationship between the identified parameters set (R0, Rtemp, R1, C1, R2, and C2) and T. An SOC estimation based on EKF algorithm is then conducted by using the measured HPPC and US06 test profiles. The experimental and simulated results show that this enhanced battery model can well predict the variations of battery SOC with a maximum error less than 2.0% and 0.25%, respectively, which illustrates that our enhanced battery model can simultaneously improve the battery SOC estimation accuracy, compared with the general 2RC-ECM for lithium–ion battery. Future work will focus on finding a comprehensive description of the battery dynamic behavior and achieving the precise and stable SOC estimation.
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