Equivalent circuit modeling and state-of-charge estimation of lithium titanate battery under low ambient pressure

Abstract

The low ambient pressure during the flight of aircraft has a significant impact on the performance and safety of the onboard power battery. In order to ensure the safe operation of the battery system, it is very important to accurately estimate and manage the state-of-charge (SOC) of the battery. In this work, the equivalent circuit modeling (ECM) of lithium titanate battery (LTB) is studied in detail, and the influence of analog circuit model parameters in low ambient pressures is discussed for the first time. The forgetting factor recursive least square algorithm is introduced to accurately identify the ECM parameters of the LTB under different pressures online. The particle swarm optimization algorithm is innovatively proposed to optimize the covariance matrix of the Kalman filter algorithm. The verification shows that the root mean square error of the ECM of LTB under different ambient pressures is less than 0.025. In the SOC estimation process, the noise covariance matrixes of the extended Kalman filter and the unscented Kalman filter are optimized by the particle swarm algorithm. The optimized SOC estimation absolute error is less than 3 %, especially at 96 kPa and 30 kPa, where the absolute error is less than 2 %.