Method of voltage setting for power battery simulator using successive nearest-neighbor interpolation

Abstract

The power battery simulator is important equipment in new energy vehicle test platform and other industrial fields, and the battery model is the key to emulate the battery characteristics accurately. A novel method of given voltage for the power battery simulator is proposed in the paper. According to the state of charge (SOC) of the power battery, three sub-tables with different resolutions are established corresponding to the initial, stationary, and final stage of SOC. To ensure the accuracy of a given voltage under small data capacity, a successive nearest-neighbor interpolation (SNNI) algorithm is proposed for processing battery model data and the iterative calculation is carried out for the data obtained by looking up the table until it approaches the required value. Simulations and experiments are done on various capacity data tables, which are obtained by employed different sampling ratios to reduce the data capacity, and the influence of iteration number selection on the accuracy of the algorithm is discussed. The results show that, after 4–5 iterations, the given voltage accuracy is controlled within 0.03 V by the SNNI algorithm with only 1.6% capacity of the standard model table, which is greatly improved compared with the traditional method, and the feasibility is verified by executing the proposed algorism in a DSP system.