FPGA-based design of advanced BMS implementing SoC/SoH estimators

Energy storage system, usually a battery, become essential part for all electric drive vehicles such as hybrid electric vehicle (HEV), plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) and electric vehicle (EV) in the coming decades. These energy storage systems include Li-ion batteries, Ni-MH batteries, lead-acid batteries and ultra-capacitors. An accurate Battery Management System (BMS) is highly demanded integrated system in all electric derive vehicles to ensure the optimum use of an energy storage system. The battery's state monitoring & evaluation, charge control and cell balancing are the important features of any BMS. However, due to unavailability of inaccurate battery's state-of-charge (SoC)/state-of-health (SoH) estimators and uncertainty of battery's performance, new approaches of BMS design are under development to control batteries optimally and hence, the vehicle performance. In addition, most of the existing BMSs either do not provide SoH at all or provide it as a function of capacity degradation over the battery usage. This research paper presents the field-programmable gate array (FPGA) - based Advanced BMS design using MATLAB-to-FPGA design flow. The Advanced BMS design provides the combined estimation of both SoC and SoH of a rechargeable battery. This research paper also summarizes the Neuro-Fuzzy & statistical models implemented in Advanced BMS for accurate estimation of battery's SoC & SoH respectively. Further, this research paper presents the selection of suitable FPGA and its hardware realization implementing Advanced BMS. Finally, the experimental results are confirmed by simulation and synthesis of its register transfer level (RTL) design. FPGA-based Advanced BMS would provide the best chip solution for a generalized BMS with benefits of low Non-recurring engineering (NRE) cost, low power consumption, high speed of operation, large reconfigurable logic and large data storage capacity.