METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ESTIMATING STATE OF CHARGE (SOC) OF BATTERY IN ELECTRIC VEHICLE

• US 20160176309A1
• Filed: 10/28/2015
• Published: 06/23/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 12/17/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., North Carolina State University (University of North Carolina System)
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., North Carolina State University (University of North Carolina System)
• Inventors: CHOW, Mo-Yuen, EICHI, Habiballah Rahimi, JEON, Paul Barom, YEO, Taejung
• Granted Patent: US 9,643,511 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 58/12 responding to state of charge [SoC]
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3469 Fuel consumption; Energy use; Emission aspects
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/70 Energy storage systems for electromobility, e.g. batteries
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 90/16 Information or communication technologies improving the operation of electric vehicles

Abstract

An apparatus for estimating a state of charge (SOC) of a battery in an electric vehicle is provided. The apparatus may include a driving history data storage configured to store driving history data for each category among categories generated based on a frequency of appearance of road data, a driving profile generator configured to categorize road data associated with a driving route for each of the generated categories and generate a driving profile with respect to the driving route based on the driving history data corresponding to the categorized road data, and a battery SOC estimator configured to estimate the SOC of a the battery with respect to the driving route based on the driving profile.

Claims

1. An apparatus for estimating a state of charge (SOC) of a battery in an electric vehicle, the apparatus comprising:

a driving history data storage configured to store driving history data for each category among categories generated based on a frequency of appearance of road data;

a driving profile generator configured to categorize road data associated with a driving route for each of the generated categories and generate a driving profile with respect to the driving route based on the driving history data corresponding to the categorized road data; and

a battery SOC estimator configured to estimate the SOC of the battery with respect to the driving route based on the driving profile.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the driving history data storage is configured to store a speed and acceleration profile of the road data corresponding to each of the generated categories.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the driving history data storage is configured to determine whether the road data belongs to a pre-existing defined category among the generated categories, and

the road data is classified into the pre-existing defined category in response to the road data belonging to the pre-existing defined category, and the road data is classified into an undefined category in response to the road data not belonging to the pre-existing defined category.

4. The apparatus of claim 3, wherein the driving history data storage comprises a category generator configured to generate a new defined category corresponding to predetermined road data in response to an iteration count of the predetermined road data classified into the undefined category being equal to a predetermined threshold value.

5. The apparatus of claim 4, wherein the predetermined threshold value is a road data iteration count of a category having a minimum road data iteration count, among pre-existing defined categories.

6. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the driving history data storage is configured to generate statistical information of the driving history data, calculate a transition probability matrix of the driving history data, and generate statistical criteria of the driving history data.

7. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the driving profile generator comprises:

a receiver configured to receive route data corresponding to the driving route from a map service database;

an extractor configured to extract road data from the route data; and

a categorizer configured to categorize the road data for each of the generated categories.

8. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the receiver is configured to store the route data in an extensible markup language (XML) format, and

the extractor is configured to extract the road data from a summary field of the route data.

9. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the driving profile generator is configured to generate the driving profile by applying the transition probability matrix to the driving history data corresponding to the categorized road data.

10. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the driving profile generator comprises a verification module configured to verify whether the driving profile satisfies statistical criteria of the driving history data.

11. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the statistical criteria comprises at least one of an average speed, an average acceleration, a standard deviation of speed, a standard deviation of acceleration, a mean positive acceleration, and a mean positive speed.

12. A method of estimating a state of charge (SOC) of a battery in an electric vehicle, the method comprising:

storing, in a driving history data storage, driving history data for each category generated based on a frequency of appearance of road data;

categorizing, using a driving profile generator, road data associated with a driving route for each of the generated categories and generating a driving profile with respect to the driving route based on the driving history data corresponding to the categorized road data; and

estimating, using a battery SOC estimator, the SOC of the battery with respect to the driving route based on the driving profile.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the storing comprises storing a speed and acceleration profile of the road data corresponding to each of the generated categories.

14. The method of claim 12, wherein the storing comprises:

determining whether the road data belongs to a pre-existing defined category among the generated categories;

classifying the road data into the pre-existing defined category in response to the road data belonging to the pre-existing defined category; and

classifying the road data into an undefined category in response to the road data not belonging to the pre-existing defined category.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the classifying of the road data into the undefined category comprises generating a new category corresponding to predetermined road data in response to an iteration count of the predetermined road data classified into the others category being equal to a predetermined threshold value.

16. The method of claim 12, wherein the storing comprises generating statistical information of the driving history data, calculating a transition probability matrix of the driving history data, and generating statistical criteria of the driving history data.

17. The method of claim 12, wherein the categorizing comprises generating the driving profile using at least one of a speed and acceleration profile generated based on the driving history data stored in a driving history data storage, a weather profile generated based on information received from a weather information website, and a road profile generated based on information received from a map service database.

18. The method of claim 12, wherein the categorizing comprises:

receiving route data corresponding to the driving route from a map service database;

extracting road data from the route data; and

categorizing the road data for each of the generated categories.

19. The method of claim 12, wherein the categorizing comprises generating the driving profile by applying the transition probability matrix to the driving history data corresponding to the categorized road data.

20. The method of claim 12, wherein the categorizing comprises verifying whether the driving profile satisfies statistical criteria of the driving history data.

21. An apparatus for estimating a state of charge (SOC) of a battery in an electric vehicle, the apparatus comprising:

a storage configured to store driving history for each category among categories generated based on road data; and

a processor configured to

categorize road data associated with a driving route for each of the generated categories,

generate a driving profile with respect to the driving route based on the driving history data corresponding to the categorized road data, and

estimate the SOC of the battery with respect to the driving route based on the driving profile.

22. The apparatus of claim 21, wherein the driving profile comprises a speed and acceleration profile.

23. The apparatus of claim 21, wherein the generated categories are generated based on a frequency of appearance of road data.