Robyn Jackey

Hi David,

Roughly speaking, change the Costar parameter (capacity at 0°C – I think units are either Amp-seconds or Amp-hours) to match the capacity you want. Other resistance parameters may be inversely proportional to the change in capacity, so if you cut the capacity by half you would double the resistances.

If you need a detailed match to a specific model of battery, it gets a bit more complicated. I offer consulting service to help teach techniques to match the model to measured data.

-Robyn

To answer your questions:

1. In the paper, we chose the initial conditions based on the driving cycle we used for validation. The temperature T=20 was based on a measured cell temperature (approximately same as electrolyte). Initial SOC was selected based on best fit of the measured vs simulated voltage at the very beginning part of the drive cycle.

2. You can modify the InputData*.xls files and import them into the Signal Builder block if you like to change the input curves. However, you will need to delete the "Copyright ..." string that was placed in cell E1 to avoid an error. Otherwise, Signal Builder tries to import data from column E, causing the error you found.

For R2012b and later, there are shipping demos of ssc_lithium_cell_1RC and ssc_lithium_cell_2RC models. the LiBatteryElements package is also part of the shipping Simscape demo, so it's not included in the R2012b folder of the zip file.

Hi David,

Roughly speaking, change the Costar parameter (capacity at 0°C – I think units are either Amp-seconds or Amp-hours) to match the capacity you want. Other resistance parameters may be inversely proportional to the change in capacity, so if you cut the capacity by half you would double the resistances.

If you need a detailed match to a specific model of battery, it gets a bit more complicated. I offer consulting service to help teach techniques to match the model to measured data.

-Robyn