Open-circuit voltage-based state of charge estimation of lithium-ion power battery by combining controlled auto-regressive and moving average modeling with feedforward-feedback compensation method

Being one of the important parameters describing the state of power battery, state of charge (SOC) is essential for the electric vehicle battery management system (BMS). SOC estimation method, which combines the constructed controlled auto-regressive and moving average (CARMA) model with the feedforward-feedback compensation method used for revising SOC by the deviation of terminal voltage, is presented in this paper. Fully taken into account the measurement errors of voltage and current, the CARMA model is employed to estimate the battery open-circuit voltage (OCV). With the good consistency of the OCV-SOC curve under the process of battery charge and discharge cycles within a certain temperature range, OCV is adopted to estimate SOC. BP neural network rather than the high order polynomial approximation is used to capture the strong nonlinear relationship between OCV and SOC with the high precision. It is a big challenge for OCV-based SOC estimation that the flat area of OCV-SOC curve for lithium-ion power battery enlarges the measurement errors of OCV. By analyzing the flat characteristic of Delta SOC-OCV curve, the feedforward-feedback compensation for SOC is used for improving the accuracy of OCV-based SOC estimation. Experiment results confirm the effectiveness of the proposed approach that has evidently advantages over other estimation methods. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.