John Hopkins University - Battery Pack Balancing and Power Estimation 

5.1.1: Welcome to the course!

5.1.2: Introduction to battery-pack balancing

5.1.3: How do battery packs become imbalanced?

5.1.4: What are the criteria for specifying a balancing setpoint for a battery pack?

5.1.5: What are the criteria for specifying when to balance a battery pack?

5.1.6: What kinds of circuits can be used for passively balancing a battery pack?

5.1.7: Summary of "Passive balancing methods for battery packs"; what next?

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Active balancing methods for battery packs

5.2.1: How to balance actively using capacitor-based circuits

5.2.2: How to balance actively using transformer-based circuits

5.2.3: How to balance actively using a shared active bus

5.2.4: Using simulation to show how quickly we must balance a battery pack

5.2.5: Introducing Octave code to simulate balancing: The main program loop

5.2.6: Summary of "Active balancing methods for battery packs"; what next?

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How to find available battery power using a simplified cell model

5.3.1: What factors must we consider when finding available battery power?

5.3.2: How to compute available battery power based on cell terminal voltage

5.3.3: How to consider other performance limits when computing available battery power

5.3.4: Introducing Octave code to compute power limits using simplified cell model

5.3.5: Summary of "How to find available battery power using a simplified cell model"; what next?

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How to find available battery power using a comprehensive cell model

5.4.1: What factors must we consider when finding available battery power?

5.4.2: How to solve for a future battery condition using the bisection algorithm

5.4.3: How to use bisection to estimate available power using comprehensive cell model

5.4.4: Introducing Octave code to compute power limits using comprehensive cell model

5.4.5: Using simulation to compare and contrast different power-estimation methods

5.4.6: Concluding remarks for the specialization

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Future Battery-Management-System Algorithms

5.5.1: What BMS algorithm needs remain?

5.5.2: Physics-based ideal-cell models

5.5.3: Single-particle reduced-order models

5.5.4: 1-d physics-based reduced-order models

5.5.5: Models of degradation mechanisms

5.5.6: Optimized controls using physics-based models

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