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Estimate e-Golf Battery State Using Diagnostic Data and a Digital Twin

Version 1 : Received: 11 January 2021 / Approved: 12 January 2021 / Online: 12 January 2021 (14:26:14 CET)

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Merkle, L.; Pöthig, M.; Schmid, F. Estimate e-Golf Battery State Using Diagnostic Data and a Digital Twin. Batteries 2021, 7, 15. Merkle, L.; Pöthig, M.; Schmid, F. Estimate e-Golf Battery State Using Diagnostic Data and a Digital Twin. Batteries 2021, 7, 15.

Abstract

Li-ion battery packs are the heart of modern electric vehicles. Due to their perishable nature, it is crucial to supervise them closely. In addition to on-board supervision over safety and range, insights into the battery’s degradation are also becoming increasingly important, not only for the vehicle manufacturers but also for vehicle users. The concept of digital twins has already emerged on the field of automotive technology, and can also help to digitalize the vehicle’s battery. In this work, we set up a data pipeline and digital battery twin to track the battery state, including state of charge (SOC), state of health (Capacity) (SOHc ) and state of health (Resistance) (SOHr ). To achieve this goal, we reverse-engineer the diagnostics interface of a 2014 e-Golf to query for Unified Diagnostic Services (UDS) messages containing both battery pack and cell-individual data. An on-board diagnosis (OBD) logger records the data with edge-processing capability. Pushing this data into the cloud twin system using IoT-technology, we can fit battery models to the data and infer cell individual internal resistance from them. We find that the resistances of the cells differ by a magnitude of two. Furthermore, we propose an architecture for the battery twin in which the twin fleet shares resources like models by encapsulating them in Docker containers run on a cloud stack. By using web technology, we present the analyzed results on a web interface.

Keywords

UDS-Diagnosis; Battery Twin; Data Logger; SOH

Subject

Engineering, Automotive Engineering

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