Reliable state of charge and state of health estimation using the smooth variable structure filter

This paper introduces a reliable strategy for the state of charge (SOC) and the state of health (SOH) estimation of healthy and aged Lithium polymer cells. Dynamics of the cell are modeled using some equivalent circuit models and parameters of each model are calculated by adaptive particle swarm optimization. The modeling process involves modeling and parametric uncertainties as well as measurement and instrumentation noise. They may degrade the performance of an optimal filter for SOC and SOH estimation. To alleviate effects of such uncertain factors, the smooth variable structure filter (SVSF) is implemented. The SVSF is a novel robust state estimation method that benefits from the robustness property of variable structure systems. The performance of the SVSF is compared with the extended Kalman filter (EKF) for real-time SOC estimation of a healthy and an aged Lithium polymer cell. The paper moreover presents a novel method for SOH estimation using the SVSF’s chattering signal and without the need for modeling the cell undergoes aging. Experiments show performance benefits of the SVSF for reliable SOC and SOH estimation of healthy and aged Lithium polymer cells.