Experimental Identification using Equivalent Circuit Model for Lithium-Ion Battery

The modelling of Lithium-ion batteries is considered as a powerful tool for the introduction and testing of this technology in energy storage applications. In fact, new application domains for the battery technology have recently placed greater emphasis on their energy management, monitoring, and control strategies. Battery models have become an essential tool for the design of battery-powered systems; their usage includes battery state-of-charge (SoC), state-of-health (SoH) estimations, and battery management system design and battery characterization. This paper presents a method on how to estimate Lithium-Ion battery equivalent circuit model (ECM) parameters based on experimental characteristic measurements by charging and discharging the battery at different modes. The experiment is realized with a computer that realizes the control of charge and discharge via LabVIEW (TM) software. In this paper, tests are conducted on Lithium-Ion battery 18650 (nominal voltage of 3.7 V and nominal capacity of 2900 mAh) with the proposed method to evaluate the battery model parameters. The proposed method has the best dynamic performance and gives accurate parameter identification which enables the use of models to simulate the battery system performance.