Battery Management for Electric Vehicles

Dear Colleagues,

Battery management plays a vital role in vehicle electrification, providing functions such as state estimation, thermal management, safe operation, fault detection and prognosis, and general housekeeping functions. Good battery management offers the potential to push cells built using the best available materials technologies as close as possible to their operational limits. Many disciplines are involved, including modeling, software and algorithms, mechanical engineering, estimation theory, computer science, and control.

This Special Issue is a dedicated outlet for up-to-date research on all aspects of battery management. Theoretical papers, practical studies and new methods are welcome, and we would particularly like to encourage papers that bridge the gap between theoretical research and practical deployment, and also those that bring in cross-disciplinary insights from outside the traditional battery domain. Review papers that bring particularly helpful insights and capture up-to-date technological landscapes are also welcome.

Topics of particular interest include (but are not limited to):

• Algorithms for estimation of state of charge, health and function;
• Advanced methods from control and estimation theory;
• Advanced methods from computer science, including artificial intelligence and machine learning;
• Dynamic temperature measurement and control;
• Deployment of advanced sensing technologies;
• Applications of novel power electronics and switching strategies;
• Physics-driven and data-driven prognostics and diagnostics;
• Battery management for batteries within hybrid energy storage systems;
• Fault-tolerant architectures and fault management strategies;
• Benchmark data sources describing cell performance at extreme limits;
• Safety management and certification.

Dr. Daniel J. Auger
Dr. Jorge Barreras
Guest Editors

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