Fault Detection of Lithium-Ion Batteries Subject to Probabilistic Parametric Uncertainties

The fault detection task in lithium-ion battery management system (BMS) is critical to the safety and reliability of rechargeable and hybrid electric vehicles. To explicitly account for inevitable errors of battery model parameters, a robust fault detection method is proposed in this paper. The residual generator is established by exploiting an equivalent circuit model. The effect of uncertainties on the residual is parametrized as polynomial dependence on probabilistic uncertain parameters and noises. Then Gaussian mixtures are adopted to derive the residual distribution. To account for residual uncertainties in the detection decision, the weighted sum of distances from the generated residual to each Gaussian component of the residual distribution is proposed. Simulation results illustrate that our proposed method outperforms the conventional approach that does not consider parametric uncertainties.