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Abstract
A Battery Management System (BMS) ensures safety, performance, and longevity of the battery pack by monitoring, protecting, and balancing cells. Key functions include real-time monitoring of voltage, current, and temperature, protecting against overcharge/deep discharge, balancing cell charges, and reporting battery states. Designing a BMS requires integrating hardware (HW) and software (SW) to achieve these goals, which includes decoupling high-level requirements often driven by other system and business requirements, defining HW and SW requirements on the lower levels, writing the test plans required to validate such requirements, and ultimately the design, manufacturing and integration of hardware and the design and implementation of the algorithms that equip the BMS software. This talk aims at bringing a systems engineering perspective on the design of a BMS to bridge the academic ingenuity with the product development workflow found in the industry.
About presenter
Marcelo A. Xavier is an expert in Battery Management, Controls, and Modeling, currently applying his expertise at Amazon Leo, Amazon’s satellite broadband network initiative. Marcelo holds a PhD in Engineering and a MSc in EE from UCCS, an MBA from Fundacao Getulio Vargas in Brazil and a PMP®️ certification. His work includes several scientific publications and patented methods on battery state estimation. He’s a husband, a father and a Brazilian jiu-jitsu purple belt.