Method and system for online estimation of SOH and RUL of a battery

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11255918-B2
Application number	US-202117142037-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 5, 2021
Priority date	Jan 6, 2020
Publication date	Feb 22, 2022
Grant date	Feb 22, 2022

Abstract

Performance and lifespan of batteries deteriorate with time due to various factors. Existing systems for battery management use different approaches for the battery management, and also rely on static value of parameters for State of Health (SOH) and Remaining Useful Life (RUL) estimation, thereby failing to consider current condition of the battery. The disclosure herein generally relates to battery management, and, more particularly, to a method and system for online battery management involving real-time estimation of State of Health (SOH) and Remaining Useful Life (RUL) of a battery, based on real-time data collected from the battery. The system determines state of the battery as one of charging, discharging, and rest. Further, corresponding to the determined state, the system determines values of one or more parameters, and processes the determined values with a battery performance model for online determination of the SOH and RUL.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A processor implemented method for online battery management, comprising:
determining real-time value of voltage and current of a battery being monitored, via one or more hardware processors;
determining a state of the battery as at least one of charging, discharging, and rest, via the one or more hardware processors, based on the determined real-time value of at least one of the current and voltage;
determining value of at least one of a cumulative charge (Q char ), a time elapsed (T elap ), Operation time (T opn ), and Charging Time (T opn_ch ) based on the determined state of the battery, via the one or more hardware processors; and
processing the determined value of the at least one of the Q char , T elap , T opn- , and T opn_ch with a battery performance model to determine a State of Health (SOH) and Remaining Useful Life (RUL) of the battery, via the one or more hardware processors, the processing comprising:
determining correlation of the determined value of the at least one of the Q char , T elap , T opn , and T opn_ch with the battery performance model, wherein the battery performance model is used to determine value of the SOH at a future instance of time under certain usage conditions, wherein the certain usage conditions are assumptions that a usage pattern of the battery being monitored is same as at least one usage pattern based on historical information;
determining the SOH of the battery based on the determined correlation; and
determining the Remaining Useful Life (RUL) of the battery based on the determined SOH of the battery.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the value of the Q char , T elap , T opn- , and T opn_ch are determined if the determined state of the battery is at least one of charging and discharging.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the value of the T elap is determined if the determined state of the battery is ‘rest’.

4. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the battery performance model is a machine learning model trained using training data comprising historical data pertaining to a plurality of SOH and RUL of at least one battery and value of a plurality of Key Variables of Interest (KVI) for each of the plurality of SOH and RUL.

5. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein determining the RUL based on the determined SOH of the battery comprises:
collecting the historical information, wherein the historical information comprises at least one SOH of the battery determined at a past time instance, and values of the cumulative charge (Q char ), the time elapsed (T elap ), the T opn , and the T opn_ch corresponding to the determined at least one SOH;
determining values of the cumulative charge (Q char ), the time elapsed (T elap ), the T opn , and the T opn_ch for the future instance of time, based on the historical information;
determining the SOH at the future instance of time, based on the determined values of the cumulative charge (Q char ), the time elapsed (T elap ), the T opn , and the T opn_ch ; and
processing the determined SOH and the determined values of Q char , T elap , T opn , and the T opn_ch using the battery performance model, comprising:
comparing the SOH determined for the future instance of time with the at least one SOH determined at the past instance of time;
determining difference between the SOH determined for the future instance of time and the at least one SOH determined at the past instance of time; and
determining the RUL of the battery based on the determined difference between the SOH determined for the future instance of time and the at least one SOH determined at the past instance of time.

6. A system for online battery management, comprising:
a memory storing instructions;
one or more communication interfaces; and
one or more hardware processors coupled to the memory via the one or more communication interfaces, wherein the one or more hardware processors are configured by the instructions to:
determine real-time value of voltage and current of a battery being monitored;
determine a state of the battery as at least one of charging, discharging, and rest, based on the determined real-time value of at least one of the current and voltage;
determine value of at least one of a cumulative charge (Q char ), a time elapsed (T elap ), Operation Time (T opn- ), and Charging Time (T opn_ch ) based on the determined state of the battery; and
process the determined value of the at least one of the Q char , T elap , T opn , and T opn_ch with a battery performance model to determine a State of Health (SOH) and Remaining Useful Life (RUL) of the battery, the processing comprising:
determining correlation of the determined value of the at least one of the Q char , T elap , and T opn with a battery performance model, wherein the battery performance model is used to determine value of the SOH at a future instance of time under certain usage conditions, wherein the certain usage conditions are assumptions that a usage pattern of the battery being monitored is same as at least one usage pattern based on historical information;
determining the SOH of the battery based on the determined correlation; and
determining the Remaining Useful Life (RUL) of the battery based on the determined SOH of the battery.

7. The system as claimed in claim 6 , wherein the system determines value of the Q char , T elap , T opn , and T opn_ch if the determined state of the battery is at least one of charging and discharging.

8. The system as claimed in claim 6 , wherein the system determines the value of the T elap if the determined state of the battery is ‘rest’.

9. The system as claimed in claim 6 , wherein the battery performance model is a machine learning model trained using training data comprising historical data pertaining to a plurality of SOH and RUL of at least one battery and value of a plurality of Key Variables of Interest (KVI) for each of the plurality of SOH and RUL.

10. The system as claimed in claim 6 , wherein the system determines the RUL based on the determined SOH of the battery by:
collecting the historical information, wherein the historical information comprises at least one SOH of the battery determined at a past time instance, and values of the cumulative charge (Q char ), the time elapsed (T elap ), the T opn , and the T opn_ch corresponding to the determined at least one SOH;
determining values of the cumulative charge (Q char ), the time elapsed (T elap ), the T opn , and the T opn_ch for the future instance of time, based on the historical information;
determining the SOH at the future instance of time, based on the determined values of the cumulative charge (Q char ), the time elapsed (T elap ), the T opn , and the T opn_ch ; and
processing the determined SOH and the determined values of Q char , T elap , T opn , and the T opn_ch using the battery performance model, comprising:
comparing the SOH determined for the future instance of time with the at least one SOH determined at the past instance of time;
determining difference between the SOH determined for the future instance of time and the at least one SOH determined at the past instance of time; and
determining the RUL of the battery based on the determined difference between the SOH determined for the future instance of time and the at least one SOH determined at the past instance of time.

11. A non-transitory computer readable medium for battery management, wherein the non-transitory computer readable medium comprising a plurality of instructions which when executed using one or more hardware processors, cause the one or more hardware processors to perform the battery management by:
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Assignees

• Tata Consultancy Services Ltd

Inventors

• Desai Saurabh Jaywant
• AGARWAL Shashank
• Runkana Venkataramana
• Pareek Aditya
• Ramanujam Muralikrishnan

Classifications

• G01R31/367 Primary

  Software therefor, e.g. for battery testing using modelling or look-up tables · CPC title

• G01R31/3828

  using current integration · CPC title

• G01R31/392 Primary

  Determining battery ageing or deterioration, e.g. state of health · CPC title

• G06N20/00

  Machine learning · CPC title