A Comparative Study of Fractional-Order Models for Supercapacitors in Electric Vehicles

Abstract

Fractional-order models display many advantages compared with integer-order equivalent circuit models for modeling energy storage system, such as more precision, fewer parameters. This paper carries out a comparative study of fractional-order equivalent circuit models for modeling supercapacitor. These models are fractional-order RC model, fractional-order classic model, fractional-order RRCW model, fractional-order dynamic model, fractional-order transmission line model. An experiment load platform is built to test the supercapacitor for collecting the feature data. To be fair, the parameters of all models are optimized to achieve their best fitting accuracy by using the genetic algorithm. Accuracy and complexity two indices are considered to evaluate the above five models based on different test cycles. Simulation results show that the fractional-order RRCW model has the ideally comprehensive performance.