Performance Evaluation of an Extended Kalman Filter for State Estimation of a Pseudo-2D Thermal-Electrochemical Lithium-Ion Battery Model

Fast and accurate state estimation is one of the major challenges for designing an advanced battery management system based on high-fidelity physics-based model. This paper evaluates the performance of a modified extended Kalman filter (EKF) for on-line state estimation of a pseudo-2D thermal-electrochemical model of a lithium-ion battery under a highly dynamic load with 16C peak current. The EKF estimation on the full model is shown to be significantly more accurate (< 1% error on SOC) than that on the single-particle model (10% error on SOC). The efficiency of the EKF can be improved by reducing the order of the discretised model while maintaining a high level of accuracy. It is also shown that low noise level in the voltage measurement is critical for accurate state estimation.