SoC-Modified Core Temperature Estimation of Lithium-Ion Battery Based on Control-Oriented Electro-Thermal Model

Lithium-ion batteries and their control technologies are the key points to electrification and intelligence of transportation. Dynamic thermal management is one of the key technologies for intelligent battery management systems. Real-time monitoring of information about the temperature characteristics inside the battery is important for effective and safe thermal management. This article fist constructs a distributed control-oriented electro-thermal coupling model that contains multidimensional internal information about the cell. Based on the proposed model, improved parameter identification methods are used to construct offline database of model parameters. The electrical and thermal parameters are identified by applying recursive least squares with variable forgetting factor and particle swarm optimization separately. Finally, a state of charge (SoC)-modified core temperature estimation method is proposed, which adopts discrete-time nonlinear observer to modify SoC and adaptive Kalman filter to estimate core temperature. The method takes into account the sensitivity of the output results to nonlinear, time-varying battery systems. The results show that the root-mean-square error (RMSE) of SoC estimation is 1.75% and the mean absolute error (MAE) is 0.65% for the proposed temperature method under wide temperature points (−5 °C, 25 °C, and 45 °C). The proposed core temperature estimation method possesses better robustness and universality, with RMSE of 0.61 °C and MAE of 0.56 °C. Compared with the open-loop prediction method, the accuracy is improved about 0.5 °C under extreme loadfiles with uncertainty.