Apparatus and method for controlling a vehicle
AssigneesHyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation, Auburn University
InventorsWooju Lee, Song-Yul Choe, Kyungjin Yu
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Abstract
A vehicle control apparatus predicts a state of a battery based on a battery model that reflects at least one of an electrical characteristic, a thermal characteristic, a degradation characteristic, or any combination thereof of the battery, determines a target charging current for shortening a charging time of the battery based on at least one of a negative pulse that induces stripping where metal plated from the battery is oxidized into metal ions, or the state of the battery, or any combination thereof, and charges the battery based on the target charging current.
Claims20
A vehicle control apparatus comprising:
- a memory configured to store program instructions;
- and
- a processor configured to execute the program instructions,
- wherein the processor is configured to:
- determine a state of a battery based on a battery model that considers at least one of an electrical characteristic, a thermal characteristic, a degradation characteristic, or any combination thereof of the battery;
- determine a target charging current for shortening a charging time of the battery based on at least one of a negative pulse that induces stripping where metal plated from the battery is oxidized into metal ions, or the state of the battery, or any combination thereof;
- and
- charge the battery based on the target charging current.
A vehicle control method, the method comprising:
- determining, by a processor, a state of a battery based on a battery model that considers at least one of an electrical characteristic, a thermal characteristic, a degradation characteristic, or any combination thereof of the battery;
- determining, by the processor, a target charging current for shortening a charging time of the battery based on at least one of a negative pulse that induces stripping where metal plated from the battery is oxidized into metal ions, or the state of the battery, or any combination thereof;
- and
- charging, by the processor, the battery based on the target charging current.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.