Distributed control for state-of-charge balancing between the modules of a reconfigurable battery energy storage system

This paper presents a distributed control strategy for state-of-charge balancing between the battery modules of a reconfigurable battery energy storage system. The autonomous modules share state-of-charge information with their neighbors over a sparse communication network and cooperate to reach a balanced state of charge. The proposed control strategy provides advantages in terms of reduced communication requirements and increased modularity, over a centralized battery management system. Steady-state analysis provides bounds on the mean error and mean-squared error of the distributed average state-of-charge estimates used for autonomous balancing control. The proposed control strategy enforces module topology constraints specific to the particular reconfigurable battery implementation. The state-of-charge balancing mode current controller prevents current spikes during module topology transitions. Experimental results demonstrate the performance of the proposed control strategy for a reconfigurable energy storage system made up of four 6-V, 7-Ah lead-acid battery modules

Distributed control for state-of-charge balancing between the modules of a reconfigurable battery energy storage system

This paper presents a distributed control strategy for state-of-charge balancing between the battery modules of a reconfigurable battery energy storage system. The autonomous modules share state-of-charge information with their neighbors over a sparse communication network and cooperate to reach a balanced state of charge. The proposed control strategy provides advantages in terms of reduced communication requirements and increased modularity, over a centralized battery management system. Steady-state analysis provides bounds on the mean error and mean-squared error of the distributed average state-of-charge estimates used for autonomous balancing control. The proposed control strategy enforces module topology constraints specific to the particular reconfigurable battery implementation. The state-of-charge balancing mode current controller prevents current spikes during module topology transitions. Experimental results demonstrate the performance of the proposed control strategy for a reconfigurable energy storage system made up of four 6-V, 7-Ah lead-acid battery modules