Electrochemical Model and Sigma Point Kalman Filter Based Online Oriented Battery Model

• Main Authors: E. Miguel, Gregory L. Plett, M. Scott Trimboli, I. Lopetegi, L. Oca, U. Iraola, E. Bekaert
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 2021-01-01
• Series: IEEE Access
• Subjects: Batteries; battery management systems; electrochemical devices; Kalman filters
• Online Access: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9477587/

This paper presents a reduced-order electrochemical battery model designed for the online implementation of battery control systems. The model is based on porous-electrode and concentrated-solution theory frameworks and is able to predict voltage as well as the internal electrochemical variables of a battery. The reduction of the model leads to a physics-based one-dimensional discrete-time state-space reduced-order model (ROM), which is especially beneficial for online systems. Models optimized around different operational setpoints are combined to predict cell variables over a wide range of temperatures and state of charges (SOCs) using the output-blending method. A sigma-point Kalman filter is further used to manage inaccuracies generated by the reduction process and experimental-related issues such as measurement error (noise) in the current and voltage sensors. The state-estimation accuracies are measured against a full-order model (FOM) developed in COMSOL. The whole system is able to track the internal variables of the cell, as well as the cell voltage and SOC with very high accuracy, demonstrating its suitability for an online battery control system.