Battery Management Systems

What You Will Learn

• 1 Learn the fundamental components and architecture of a battery management system.
• 2 Understand battery modeling techniques including equivalent circuit and electrochemical models.
• 3 Apply state estimation algorithms for state-of-charge and state-of-health determination.
• 4 Analyze cell balancing methods and implement passive and active balancing strategies.
• 5 Create thermal management designs to maintain optimal battery temperature.
• 6 Implement safety and protection features including overcurrent, overvoltage, and thermal runaway prevention.
• 7 Develop communication protocols between BMS and host systems using CAN and SMBus.
• 8 Explore advanced topics like machine learning for SoC estimation and second-life battery applications.
• 9 Design a complete BMS firmware architecture with real-time constraints.
• 10 Integrate BMS with solar, wind, and grid storage systems for energy management.