Control and Analysis of a Modular Bridge for Battery Cell Voltage Balancing
Bibliographic record
Abstract
A new distributed control scheme and charge flow analysis is presented for voltage balancing of series connected battery cells using nondissipative modular power electronics. Each modular bridge is connected across two battery cells using a high frequency transformer and an asymmetrical half-bridge. This results in using one switch and one diode per battery cell. Intrabridge charge transfer equalizes the voltage of two battery cells within a module using coupled transformer windings. Each modular bridge is connected to adjacent bridges by connecting transformer windings within each module. This allows interbridge charge transfer and the balancing of pairs of battery cells, both within adjacent bridge modules and modules more removed. The proposed controller uses a distributed control strategy whereby the control of each modular bridge monitors its own battery cell voltages and also those of adjacent bridges, thus reducing the number of feedback sensors. Detailed analysis is presented that quantifies the flow of charge between a number of series connected battery cells (N battery cells). A per-unit design methodology is used to illustrate the system charge flow characteristics. Simulations, design guidelines and experimental results are presented to validate the proposed method.
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