Enhanced state of charge estimation for Li-ion batteries through adaptive maximum correntropy Kalman filter with open circuit voltage correction

Due to the possible interference of non-Gaussian noise in Li-ion battery management systems, there is no guarantee of reliable accuracy when using the extended Kalman filter (EKF) algorithm for battery state of charge (SOC) estimation. A novel EKF algorithm based on the adaptive maximum correntropy criterion (AMCCEKF) is proposed to enhance the robustness of SOC estimation in the paper. The Gaussian kernel function is chosen as the cost function to reconstruct the state error variance and the measurement noise variance. And a kernel width adaptive update strategy is designed to address the constraints of fixed kernel width on SOC estimation performance. In addition, an open circuit voltage (OCV) correction strategy based on terminal voltage innovation and OCV-SOC curve gradient is designed to reduce the impact of OCV error caused by non-Gaussian noise on SOC estimation. Incorporating the AMCCEKF method and the OCV correction strategy, a novel estimation method based on the dOCV-AMCCEKF is offered to perform the SOC estimation. Simulation results under different operating conditions and temperatures show that the maximum absolute error of the dOCV-AMCCEKF method is close to 0.5%, which verifies it can reduce the SOC estimation error in a non-Gaussian noisy interference environment compared with the EKF based method.