
ECE4510/ECE5510, INTRODUCTION TO FEEDBACK CONTROL 1–13
Our research area: xEV applications of control systems
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At UCCS, our research is focused on applications of control systems
to hybr id- and electric-vehicle battery management.
• The battery is the heaviest and most expensive component in the
electric drivetrain.
• Battery packs are presently over-designed/underutilized in an
effort to extend life.
• Understanding the physical mechanisms that degrade life, and
controlling battery packs to avoid conditions that accelerate these
mechanisms will extend life.
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In the past, we have had projects in topics including:
• Collecting data from laboratory tests to understand ideal-cell and
degradation dynamics.
• Modeling hysteresis effects in battery cell voltage.
• Making reduced-order models of full-order physics models of cells.
• Using model-predictive controls for fast-charge.
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Presently, we have projects in topics including:
• Optimal balancing of cells in a large battery pack.
• Building a hardware battery pack simulator.
• Building a hardware battery management system.
• Internal state estimation of battery cells.
• Reduced-order degradation m odels of battery cells.
• System identification of battery cell model parameters.
• Physics-based power limits to optimize life.
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! 1998–2013, Gregory L. Plett and M. Scott Trimboli
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