Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics ›› 2025, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (6): 1579-1594.doi: 10.23919/JSEE.2025.000125

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State of charge estimation for lithium battery based on grey Kalman filter model

Zhicun XU(), Naiming XIE()   

  • Received:2025-02-18 Online:2025-12-18 Published:2026-01-07
  • Contact: Naiming XIE E-mail:xzc0525@126.com;xienaiming@nuaa.edu.cn
  • About author:
    XU Zhicun was born in 1994. She received her B.S. degree in business administration from the Kexin College of Hebei University of Engineering, Handan, China, in 2018. She received her M.S. degree in management science and engineering from Hebei University of Engineering, Handan, China in 2021. She is pursuing her Ph.D. degree in management science and engineering from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Her main research interests include grey system theory, lithium battery state estimation, and remaining useful life prediction. E-mail: xzc0525@126.com

    XIE Naiming was born in 1981. He received his B.S, M.S, and Ph.D. degrees from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA) in 2002, 2005, and 2008, respectively. He is a professor with the College of Economics and Management of NUAA. His research interests include grey systems theory, production scheduling and control. E-mail: xienaiming@nuaa.edu.cn
  • Supported by:
    This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (92367301; 72171116), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (NK2023001; NP2024203), and the “333 talent” project in Jiangsu Province.

Abstract:

In this paper, a grey Kalman filter model is proposed for lithium battery charge state estimation. Firstly, this paper establishes a recursive relation equation between the front and back terms through the grey model (GM). Secondly, the state space expression is constructed based on the recursive relationship equation. Next, the Kalman filter algorithm is integrated to form a grey Kalman filter model. Finally, the charge state is estimated based on public lithium battery data. In this paper, the state of charge is estimated from three different aspects, including different driving cycles, randomly mixed driving cycles, and the estimation of the state of charge by different temperatures under the same driving cycle conditions. On this basis, the model is applied to a life scenario using the charge state of 20 electric vehicles. The results show that the proposed model has good accuracy.

Key words: grey model (GM), lithium batteries, state of charge, electric vehicle