The accurate and rapid estimation of the state of charge (SOC) is important and difficult in lithium battery management systems. In this paper, an adaptive infinite Kalman filter (AUKF) was used to estimate the state of charge for a 18650 LiNiMnCoO2/graphite lithium-ion battery, and its performance was systematically evaluated under large initial errors, wide temperature ranges, and different drive cycles. In addition, three other Kalman filter algorithms on the predicted SOC of LIB were compared under different work conditions, and the accuracy and convergence time of different models were compared. The results showed that the convergence time of the AUKF algorithms was one order of magnitude smaller than that of the other three methods, and the mean absolute error was only less than 50% of the other methods. The present work can be used to help other researchers select an appropriate strategy for the SOC online estimation of lithium-ion cells under different applicable conditions.
Keywords: Kalman filter algorithms; adaptive; lithium battery; state of charge.