State of Charge Estimation for Li-Ion Batteries Based on an Unscented H-Infinity Filter

The state of charge (SOC) of lithium-ion batteries reflects their remaining capacity. Accurate estimation of SOC helps battery safety and is beneficial to the efficient management of batteries. The charging and discharging processes of lithium-Ion batteries are very complicated, and it is difficult to obtain accurate SOC estimation results. Therefore, it is important to study improved algorithms for SOC estimation for this nonlinear non-Gaussian battery system. In this paper, we propose an unscented H-infinity filter (UHF) based SOC estimation method, which combines the advantages of both the unscented Kalman filter (UKF) and the H-infinity filter (HF). The UKF propagates the sigma points through the nonlinear system and does not need the first-order linear approximation of the system equation, while the HF can suppress the non-Gaussian noise in the system to the greatest extent. The proposed UHF based SOC estimation algorithm is verified and evaluated in the battery management system, and further optimized in practical problems. Experimental results show that the proposed UHF based algorithm can perform accurate SOC estimation for lithium-ion batteries, and is superior to the UKF based SOC estimation.