Electrified vehicle DC power conversion with distributed control
Abstract
An electrified vehicle has a battery pack comprising series-connected battery units providing a main voltage. To supply a lower voltage bus equally from all battery units, a plurality of DC/DC converters are powered by respective units and have their outputs in parallel. A central module has an outer loop controller generating a target current to regulate the bus voltage to a predetermined voltage and has an allocator distributing the target current into a plurality of allocated current commands according to respective states of charge of the battery units. A plurality of local controllers each adjusts a current of a respective DC/DC converter. Each local controller receives a respective allocated current command as a respective feedforward control variable. Each local controller uses an error between the bus voltage and the predetermined voltage to be integrated as a respective feedback control variable only when the error is above a threshold.
- Inventors:
- Issue Date:
- Research Org.:
- Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1494593
- Patent Number(s):
- 10131245
- Application Number:
- 15/238,003
- Assignee:
- FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC (Dearborn, MI)
- Patent Classifications (CPCs):
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H - ELECTRICITY H02 - GENERATION H02M - APPARATUS FOR CONVERSION BETWEEN AC AND AC, BETWEEN AC AND DC, OR BETWEEN DC AND DC, AND FOR USE WITH MAINS OR SIMILAR POWER SUPPLY SYSTEMS
H - ELECTRICITY H02 - GENERATION H02J - CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS OR SYSTEMS FOR SUPPLYING OR DISTRIBUTING ELECTRIC POWER
- DOE Contract Number:
- AR0000271
- Resource Type:
- Patent
- Resource Relation:
- Patent File Date: 2016 Aug 16
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 33 ADVANCED PROPULSION SYSTEMS
Citation Formats
Hand, III, Michael J., and Anderson, Richard Dyche. Electrified vehicle DC power conversion with distributed control. United States: N. p., 2018.
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abstractNote = {An electrified vehicle has a battery pack comprising series-connected battery units providing a main voltage. To supply a lower voltage bus equally from all battery units, a plurality of DC/DC converters are powered by respective units and have their outputs in parallel. A central module has an outer loop controller generating a target current to regulate the bus voltage to a predetermined voltage and has an allocator distributing the target current into a plurality of allocated current commands according to respective states of charge of the battery units. A plurality of local controllers each adjusts a current of a respective DC/DC converter. Each local controller receives a respective allocated current command as a respective feedforward control variable. Each local controller uses an error between the bus voltage and the predetermined voltage to be integrated as a respective feedback control variable only when the error is above a threshold.},
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Control of a series-input, parallel-output cell balancing system for electric vehicle battery packs
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- Rehman, M. Muneeb Ur; Zhang, Fan; Evzelman, Michael
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