LabView-based universal battery monitoring and management system

Author

Buller, Stephan ; Karden, Eckhard ; Lohner, Andreas ; De Doncker, Rik W.

Author_Institution

Inst. for Power Electron. & Electr. Drives, Aachen Univ. of Technol., Germany

fYear

1998

fDate

1998

Firstpage

630

Lastpage

635

Abstract

In this paper, the main principles and the general structure of battery monitoring and management systems (BMS) are explained. Furthermore, a newly developed, highly accurate and inexpensive data acquisition system for BMS is presented. The modular measuring system consists of two different types of monitoring units, a battery block-voltage monitoring unit and a battery current and temperature monitoring unit. Following the discussion of the measuring hardware, a LabView realization of a universal BMS software is described in detail. Due to the flexible design of the LabView BMS, the system is able to perform control and surveillance activities for any kind of battery application and battery technology (e.g. Pb, VRLA, Ni-Cd, Ni-MH etc.). The BMS was originally designed for VRLA batteries in uninterruptible power supply systems (UPS), but was also tested in electric vehicles (VW CityStromer, BMW)

Keywords

battery chargers; battery testers; computerised monitoring; electric current measurement; power engineering computing; secondary cells; temperature measurement; voltage measurement; LabView-based universal battery monitoring/management system; battery block-voltage monitoring; battery current monitoring; battery technology; battery temperature monitoring; data acquisition system; modular measuring system; secondary batteries; surveillance activities; Battery charge measurement; Battery management systems; Current measurement; Data acquisition; Hardware; Monitoring; Software measurement; Temperature measurement; Temperature sensors; Uninterruptible power systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Telecommunications Energy Conference, 1998. INTELEC. Twentieth International

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5069-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/INTLEC.1998.793612

Filename

793612