Trip-based stochastic prediction of battery state-of-charge for electric vehicles Online publication date: Thu, 22-Dec-2011
by Nitin Ranjan; Yaoyu Li
International Journal of Electric and Hybrid Vehicles (IJEHV), Vol. 3, No. 4, 2011
Abstract: For electric vehicle (EV) operation, a major concern is whether the available on-board battery charge could sustain a specific trip or not. It is of practical benefit for EV driver to predict the battery energy demand for a specific trip a prior. This paper presents a trip specific scheme for estimating the battery state-of-charge (SOC) change based on the trip modelling in a probabalistic fashion. Assuming an approximate constant-acceleration model for trip segments, there are cases of accelerating, constant speed and decelerating segments. The distribution density functions of the segmental acceleration and mean speed are estimated from test driving cycle data. The stochastic characteristics of the SOC change for a specific trip is then obtained via a Monte Carlo type method. For an example trip in the greater Milwaukee area, simulation results show that for the example trip, the SOC change is 33.4% ± 6.4% with 95% confidence.
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