Identification of Equivalent Circuit Model Parameters For A Li-Ion Battery Cell
Identification of Equivalent Circuit Model Parameters For A Li-Ion Battery Cell
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Conference on Systems and Control, Sousse, Tunisia,
December 18-20, 2023
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Battery Systems Engineering, Rimac Technology d.o.o., Sveta Nedelja, Croatia
2023 IEEE 11th International Conference on Systems and Control (ICSC) | 979-8-3503-0488-6/23/$31.00 ©2023 IEEE | DOI: 10.1109/ICSC58660.2023.10449745
Abstract—Batteries raise issues in electric vehicles because model of the battery to compute control actions. Naturally,
of their limited range and lifespan. They can however be model accuracy is crucial for the correct operation of the
extended by implementing smart, accurate and computationally control algorithm [5].
inexpensive control algorithms. Herein, a lithium-ion battery cell
is modelled with an equivalent circuit model which is complex This work focuses on modelling a Li-ion battery cell as it is
enough to track the output voltage of the cell while remaining the most common technology in EVs. An accurate model of a
simple enough to be used in a control algorithm. This work battery can be achieved by using Doyle-Fuller-Newman (DFN)
presents the identification procedure of equivalent circuit model model [6], or single particle model (SPM) [7], but such models
parameters for a lithium-ion battery cell by applying high are hard to parametrize based on readily available data, and
currents to the cell. Consequently, high accuracy was achieved
for the whole range of possible currents. The parameters were computationally too expensive to run in real-time on embedded
identified on a dataset with high currents, while the model was systems found in EVs. A more suitable model for real-time
evaluated on a different dataset acquired from a real electric implementation of a battery-related control algorithm is the
vehicle usage data. Metrics from both the identification and the equivalent circuit model (ECM) composed of purely electrical
validation datasets are similar meaning that the model generalises components. The most common examples of ECMs found in
well.
Index Terms—parameter identification, optimization, equiva- literature [5], [8]–[12] are composed of an open circuit voltage
lent circuit, modelling, Li-ion, battery, EV (OCV), a resistor, and a number of RC elements connected in
series.
I. I NTRODUCTION In [5], authors developed a procedure to identify state of
In the current environment of energy efficiency, zero carbon charge (SoC) - OCV curve from just one charging/discharging
emissions, and environment protection, electric vehicles (EVs) cycle and explored various methods to approximate the SoC-
are seen as the future of transportation. They are strongly OCV curve. Cipin et al. [8] compared the first- and the second-
advocated by policy makers such as European Union (EU), order models and discussed the main problems with offline
which brought a directive on their use [1]. EVs have plenty parameter identification being: nonlinear dependence of the
advantages compared to traditional internal combustion ve- OCV and the internal resistance on the SoC of the battery,
hicles, but their biggest drawback is their battery autonomy, dependence of the battery parameters on temperature, and for
which is one of the critical factors for their integration [2]. some chemistries, hysteresis behaviour of the OCV during
There are several strategies and approaches to increase the charging and discharging. In [9], the focus was on obtaining
share of EVs, where most of them focus on decreasing cost, data for the model parameter identification by applying con-
increasing efficiency, and increasing lifespan of their batteries tinuous pulsating excitation to the battery cell. The authors
[3]. This can be achieved by implementing new technologies, showed that such method can greatly reduce the identification
but adequate control techniques and battery management sys- time while ensuring accuracy. Wu et al. [10] identified the
tems (BMSs) can be used to improve both new and existing parameters using offline hybrid pulse power characterization
battery technologies [4]. One of such techniques is model (HPPC) test cycle and went further to develop an online
predictive control (MPC) which relies on a mathematical model identification procedure to increase accuracy of the
offline model by implementing forgetting factor. Similarly to
This work was co-financed by the European Union from the European the previous research, authors of [11] developed first- and
Regional Development Fund via Operative Programme Competitiveness and second-order RC models under various charge states, but they
Cohesion 2014-2020 for Croatia within the project Dynamic Predictive
Health Protection of an Electric Vehicle Battery (EVBattPredtect, contract did it for a Li-sulphur battery. They concluded that both
no. KK.01.1.1.07.0029). models performed proficiently with respect to constant current
4.5
The values of ECM parameters differ greatly from one
Cell voltage, u
another, meaning that their values can be a few orders
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Voltage [V]
0.15
where û(k) is the estimated voltage at time instance k obtained
from the ECM i.e. expressions (2, 3, 4). As the estimated 0.1
voltage is a nonlinear function, nonlinear optimizer fmincon
from Matlab was used. However, the constraints used are 0.05
linear, so the overall optimization problem is defined in (7),
arg min J(x) 0
x 0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1
s. t. Aineq x ≤ bineq (7) SoC
xmin ≤ x ≤ xmax Fig. 5. Resulting parameter R0 after optimization.
where x is the optimization vector comprised of:
• the ECM parameters for discharging and charging
Resistance R1 [+]
Resistance R2 [+]
0.1 0.1
pdch , pchg , ∀p ∈ {R0 , R1 , T1 , R2 , T2 }; discharging, R1dch discharging, R2dch
charging, R1chg charging, R2chg
• capacity of the battery cell C; 0.05 0.05
Time T2 [s]
Cell current, i
20 and fast u2 diffuse voltages, and SoC across time period of
1000 s. Since the whole validation dataset is about 3.5 × 105
0 s long, only a detail of 1000 s is shown in order to have
higher resolution. The detail chosen shows model performance
0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 during driving which includes regenerative breaking (negative
Time [s] #105
values of i). It can be seen that the model estimates measured
4.5 voltage well during dynamic current changes, and the model
error is symetrical around 0. Lastly, it can be seen that the
4
Voltage [V]
2.1 2.101 2.102 2.103 2.104 2.105 2.106 2.107 2.108 2.109
Time [s] #105
4
Voltage [V]
3.5
Measured voltage, u
3 Model voltage, u
^ 2.103
2.1 2.101 2.102 2.104 2.105 2.106 2.107 2.108 2.109
Time [s] #105
0.1
Model error, u ! u
^
Voltage [V]
-0.1
2.1 2.101 2.102 2.103 2.104 2.105 2.106 2.107 2.108 2.109
Time [s] #105
0.2 Slow di,use voltage, u1
Voltage [V]
-0.1
2.1 2.101 2.102 2.103 2.104 2.105 2.106 2.107 2.108 2.109
Time [s] #105
1
State of Charge
SoC [-]
0.5
0
2.1 2.101 2.102 2.103 2.104 2.105 2.106 2.107 2.108 2.109
Time [s] #105
Fig. 8. A detail lasting 1000 s from the validation dataset showing current applied to the cell, measured and model output voltages, their difference, diffuse
voltages, and the state of charge.
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