A battery control apparatus according to the present disclosure includes a plurality of switching circuits connected in series to a plurality of battery packs; a plurality of sensing circuits to generate a sensing signal indicating a voltage and a current of each battery pack; and a control circuit to determine the voltage, a state of health (SOH) and a state of charge (SOC) of each battery pack. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, in the selective parallel connection control for at least one of the plurality of batteries, it is possible to reduce a difference in SOH between the plurality of batteries.

This application provides a charging method and apparatus, a vehicle, and a computer-readable storage medium. The method includes: obtaining a current voltage of a target battery; determining a current capacity of the target battery based on the current voltage; determining a chargeable capacity of the target battery based on the current capacity; and obtaining a real-time voltage of the target battery where the target battery is charged with the chargeable capacity, where the real-time voltage is used for determining a charge cut-off voltage of the target battery in a next charging.

The present disclosure is directed to charging a battery pack by measuring an electrical impedance value of a battery pack by applying a sinusoidal AC excitation signal to a plurality of battery cells of the battery pack, measuring a total impedance value of the battery pack, obtaining a chemical impedance value of the battery pack based on the electrical impedance value and the total impedance value, and adjusting a charge current applied to the battery pack based on the chemical impedance value of the battery pack.

A method for monitoring battery ageing of a battery unit in an energy storage system of a vehicle or vessel. The method includes predicting an expected service life of the battery unit based on at least information relating to a planned usage of the battery unit, during usage of the battery unit, obtaining operational data relating to an actual usage of the battery unit, predicting an actual service life of the battery unit based on at least the obtained operational data, comparing the predicted actual service life with the predicted expected service life, thus obtaining a comparison result; determining whether a predetermined notification criterion is fulfilled based on the comparison result, generating a notification to a user of the battery unit at least if the predetermined notification criterion is fulfilled.

The present disclosure discloses a balancing control method, apparatus, and system for a battery cluster, and belongs to the field of energy storage systems. The balancing control method for the battery cluster includes: obtaining at least one of a first actual state of charge and an actual state of health of each battery cell, and a second actual state of charge of each PACK; controlling, by a first balancing module based on the at least one of the first actual state of charge and the actual state of health, at least one of state of charge balancing and state of health balancing of each battery cell; and controlling, by a second balancing module based on the second actual state of charge, state of charge balancing of the PACK.

Systems and methods are disclosed herein for determining the remaining useful life of a battery cell that includes the battery cell's internal resistance and/or shock loading. In one example implementation, the systems and methods disclosed herein monitor acceleration information over time based on information received from an accelerometer integrated in a battery cell and electrical information for at least one electrical parameter of the battery cell over time. The information is stored for determining remaining useful life. In another example implementation, the systems and methods disclosed herein determine a voltage drop across the battery cell and a current output of the battery cell. The systems and methods determine an internal cell resistance of the battery cell based on charge or discharge voltage and current information.

The present disclosure relates to an apparatus and method for generating an open circuit voltage (OCV) profile, and a problem to be solved is to generate an OCV profile according to a battery cell that has degraded under actual use conditions, thereby reducing errors in calculations of a state of charge (SOC), a state of health (SOH), or the like. To this end, the present disclosure provides a configuration for generating a charging profile by charging a battery cell, analyzing the charging profile to derive degradation information of the battery cell, and generating the OCV profile of the battery cell based on the degradation information.

Techniques are provided for dividing control of energy flow at multiple Electric Vehicle (EV) stations using the combination of a centralized controller and a plurality of decentralized controllers. The centralized controller is configured to execute algorithms to generate centralized predictions, related to energy usage at stations, for a first period of time, and to generate one or more centralized baseline signals based on the centralized predictions. Each decentralized controller is configured to receive the centralized baseline signal(s), monitor interactions at a subset of stations during the first period of time, and update the centralized baseline signal(s) in real-time based on the interactions to produce locally-updated baseline signal(s). The locally-updated baseline signal(s) are communicated to the subset of stations, and energy flow is controlled at the subset of stations based on the locally-updated baseline signal(s).

An abnormal cell detection method of a battery pack including a plurality of cells, the method including obtaining a first plurality of discharge rates for each cell during a first rest period in a cell balancing state, prohibiting a cell balancing of the plurality of cells if a first cell having a first discharge rate greater than or equal to a first threshold value is detected, obtaining a second plurality of discharge rates during a second rest period for each of the plurality of cells in a cell balancing prohibition state, and detecting an abnormal cell having a second discharge rate greater than or equal to a second threshold value.

Systems and methods are disclosed herein for determining the remaining useful life of a battery cell that includes the battery cell's internal resistance and/or shock loading. In one example implementation, the systems and methods disclosed herein monitor acceleration information over time based on information received from an accelerometer integrated in a battery cell and electrical information for at least one electrical parameter of the battery cell over time. The information is stored for determining remaining useful life. In another example implementation, the systems and methods disclosed herein determine a voltage drop across the battery cell and a current output of the battery cell. The systems and methods determine an internal cell resistance of the battery cell based on charge or discharge voltage and current information.