CN116780711A

CN116780711A - Battery management method, system, battery pack, low-altitude vehicle and storage medium

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Publication number: CN116780711A
Application number: CN202310781363.2A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 薛松柏; 李清; 谢晒明; 肖仁超
Original assignee: Chengdu Wofeitianyu Technology Co ltd; Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co Ltd
Current assignee: Chengdu Wofeitianyu Technology Co ltd; Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co Ltd
Priority date: 2023-06-28
Filing date: 2023-06-28
Publication date: 2023-09-19

Abstract

The application relates to the technical field of batteries, and provides a battery management method, a battery management system, a battery pack, a low-altitude vehicle and a computer storage medium, wherein the method is applied to the battery management system, and the system comprises the following steps: the battery pack is electrically connected with any one of the plurality of distribution boxes in a parallel mode at the same time, and any one of the plurality of distribution boxes is electrically connected with one or more motors respectively; the method comprises the following steps: when the battery packs are in a normal state, controlling the battery packs to provide electric energy output; when a first battery pack in the plurality of battery packs is in an abnormal state, controlling one or more second battery packs except the first battery pack in the plurality of battery packs to provide electric energy output; the electric energy output is used as power energy source to supply to the motor through the distribution box. The application can ensure the use safety of the low-altitude transportation means.

Description

Battery management method, system, battery pack, low-altitude vehicle and storage medium

Technical Field

The present application relates to the field of battery technologies, and in particular, to a battery management method, a battery management system, a battery pack, a low-altitude vehicle, and a computer storage medium.

Background

The low-altitude traffic has various advantages and characteristics such as high efficiency, punctuality, convenience and the like, so that the road traffic situation which is more and more serious at present can be solved to a great extent. In the continuous research and development process for low-altitude traffic, the development and design of the battery system of the low-altitude traffic tool are of great importance. Because the battery management system solution directly affects the safety of use of low-altitude vehicles.

In summary, how to ensure the use safety of low-altitude vehicles is a technical problem to be solved in the field of low-altitude traffic research and development.

Disclosure of Invention

The application mainly aims to provide a battery management method, a battery management system, a battery pack, a low-altitude vehicle and a computer storage medium, and aims to ensure the use safety of the low-altitude vehicle.

To achieve the above object, the present application provides a battery management method applied to a battery management system, the system comprising: the battery packs are electrically connected with any one of the distribution boxes in parallel, and any one of the distribution boxes is electrically connected with one or more motors respectively;

The method comprises the following steps:

when the battery packs are in a normal state, controlling the battery packs to provide electric energy output;

controlling one or more second battery packs except for the first battery pack to provide electric energy output when the first battery pack in the plurality of battery packs is in an abnormal state;

the electrical energy output is supplied as a power source to the motor through the distribution box.

In some possible embodiments, the battery pack includes: the battery management units are in communication connection with each other, and one or more of the battery management units are in communication connection with the charging pile and the flight management system respectively;

the method further comprises the steps of:

the charging states of the battery packs received by the battery management unit are sent to the charging piles to control the charging piles to safely charge the battery packs;

and sending the discharge states of the plurality of battery packs received by the battery management unit to the flight management system so as to control the flight management system to safely discharge the plurality of battery packs.

In some possible embodiments, the battery pack further includes an analog acquisition front end, and the battery management unit and the analog acquisition front end adopt differential signals for information transmission;

the method further comprises the steps of:

and determining the charge state/discharge state of the battery pack according to the differential signal transmitted by the analog acquisition front end to the battery management unit.

In some possible embodiments, the communication connection between one or more of the battery management units and the charging post is a charging CAN communication connection;

transmitting the state of charge to the charging stake includes:

and sending the charging state to the charging pile through the charging CAN communication connection.

In some possible embodiments, the communication connection between one first battery management unit of the plurality of battery management units and the flight management system is a complete machine CAN communication connection, and the communication connection between one or more second battery management units of the plurality of battery management units and the flight management system is a trigger complete machine CAN communication connection;

transmitting the discharge status to the flight management system, comprising:

the discharging state is sent to the flight management system through the whole machine CAN communication connection;

Or,

and sending the discharge state to the flight management system through the trigger type complete machine CAN communication connection.

In some possible embodiments, the battery management system further comprises: the battery air cooling system and the battery heating system;

controlling the battery air cooling system to obtain power energy based on vehicle low-voltage power supply or commercial alternating-current power supply to perform air cooling and cooling on one or more battery packs;

and controlling the battery heating system to acquire power energy based on the commercial alternating current power supply to heat and raise the temperature of one or more battery packs.

In addition, in order to achieve the above object, the present application also provides a battery management system including: a plurality of battery packs, a plurality of distribution boxes, and a plurality of motors;

the battery packs are connected with any one of the distribution boxes in parallel at the same time to perform high-voltage distribution connection;

any one of the plurality of distribution boxes is respectively connected with one or more motors in a high-voltage distribution mode.

In addition, in order to achieve the above object, the present application also provides a battery pack including: the battery management unit is in communication connection with the analog acquisition front end;

The battery management unit is in communication connection with the charging pile and/or the flight management system.

In addition, to achieve the above object, the present application also provides a low-altitude vehicle comprising the battery management system as described above, or the vehicle comprises the battery pack as described above, a memory, a processor, and a computer program stored on the memory and executable on the processor, the computer program being configured to implement the steps of the battery management method as described in any one of the above.

In addition, to achieve the above object, the present application also provides a computer storage medium, which is a computer readable storage medium having stored thereon a computer program which, when executed by a processor, implements the steps of the battery management method as set forth in any one of the above.

The application provides a battery management method, a battery management system, a battery pack, a low-altitude vehicle and a computer storage medium, wherein the method is applied to the battery management system, and the system comprises the following steps: the battery packs are electrically connected with any one of the distribution boxes in parallel, and any one of the distribution boxes is electrically connected with one or more motors respectively; the method comprises the following steps: when the battery packs are in a normal state, controlling the battery packs to provide electric energy output; controlling one or more second battery packs except for the first battery pack to provide electric energy output when the first battery pack in the plurality of battery packs is in an abnormal state; the electrical energy output is supplied as a power source to the motor through the distribution box.

In other words, according to the battery management method provided by the application, the battery management system is designed to be connected with any one of the plurality of distribution boxes in a parallel mode at the same time, and the plurality of distribution boxes are connected with one or more motors in a high-voltage distribution mode, so that the high-voltage output of the battery is connected in parallel, electric energy is supplied to the motors, and when a certain battery cannot normally supply electric energy output, the rest battery can still normally supply power energy for the motors, thereby ensuring that the low-altitude vehicles can have enough time to realize landing, and effectively ensuring the use safety of the low-altitude vehicles.

In addition, the battery management system provided by the application can enable the voltage platform of the battery pack to be about 1000V or more under the condition that the battery pack can supply electric energy to the motor through a plurality of battery packs, and the voltage platform is high and the current is small when the power of the motor is constant, so that the high-voltage wire harness can be lightened, the diameter is reduced and the cost is reduced.

Furthermore, the plurality of battery packs provided by the application can be flexibly arranged on a low-altitude vehicle such as a flying car, because reasonable positions are only allocated to the battery packs according to the self structure of the low-altitude vehicle, and the battery pack has better expansibility compared with a battery system consisting of only one battery pack.

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The accompanying drawings, which are incorporated in and constitute a part of this specification, illustrate embodiments consistent with the application and together with the description, serve to explain the principles of the application.

In order to more clearly illustrate the embodiments of the application or the technical solutions of the prior art, the drawings which are used in the description of the embodiments or the prior art will be briefly described, and it will be obvious to a person skilled in the art that other drawings can be obtained from these drawings without inventive effort.

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of an operating device of a hardware operating environment according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating steps of an embodiment of a battery management method according to the present application;

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of a high voltage parallel connection of a plurality of battery packs in a battery management system according to the present application;

FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of a communication link of the battery management system according to the present application;

FIG. 5 is a schematic functional diagram of a battery management unit according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 6 is a functional schematic diagram of another battery management unit according to an embodiment of the present application in practical applications;

FIG. 7 is a schematic functional diagram of another battery management unit according to an embodiment of the present application in practical application;

Fig. 8 is a functional schematic diagram of an analog acquisition front end according to an embodiment of the present application in practical applications.

Fig. 9 is a schematic view of an internal high voltage electric power supply of a battery pack according to an embodiment of the present application.

The achievement of the objects, functional features and advantages of the present application will be further described with reference to the accompanying drawings, in conjunction with the embodiments.

Detailed Description

It should be understood that the specific embodiments described herein are for purposes of illustration only and are not intended to limit the scope of the application.

It should be noted that the description of "first", "second", etc. in this disclosure is for descriptive purposes only and is not to be construed as indicating or implying a relative importance or implying an indication of the number of technical features being indicated. Thus, a feature defining "a first" or "a second" may explicitly or implicitly include at least one such feature. In addition, the technical solutions of the embodiments may be combined with each other, but it is necessary to base that the technical solutions can be realized by those skilled in the art, and when the technical solutions are contradictory or cannot be realized, the combination of the technical solutions should be considered to be absent and not within the scope of protection claimed in the present application.

In embodiments of the present application, unless explicitly specified and limited otherwise, the terms "connected," "secured," and the like are to be construed broadly, and for example, "secured" may be either fixedly attached, detachably attached, or integrally formed; can be mechanically or electrically connected; either directly or indirectly, through intermediaries, or both, may be in communication with each other or in interaction with each other, unless expressly defined otherwise. The specific meaning of the above terms in the embodiments of the present application will be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art according to specific circumstances.

The following description of the embodiments of the present application will be made clearly and fully with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which it is evident that the embodiments described are only some, but not all embodiments of the application. All other embodiments, which can be made by those skilled in the art based on the embodiments of the application without making any inventive effort, are intended to be within the scope of the application.

Referring to fig. 1, fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of an operating device of a hardware operating environment according to an embodiment of the present application.

In this embodiment, the operating device of the hardware operating environment according to the embodiment of the present application may be a low-altitude vehicle including a battery management system or a battery pack, where the low-altitude vehicle includes a battery management system that may include: the battery packs are connected in parallel and are connected with any one of the distribution boxes at the same time, and any one of the distribution boxes is connected with one or more motors at high voltage. Alternatively, the low-altitude vehicle includes a battery pack including: the device comprises a battery management unit and an analog acquisition front end, wherein the battery management unit is in communication connection with the analog acquisition front end, and the battery management unit is in communication connection with a charging pile and/or a flight management system.

Furthermore, in some particular embodiments, the low-altitude vehicle may be a flying car. It should be understood that the running device may of course also be other terminal devices connected to or integrated in the low-altitude vehicle, so as to be able to control the low-altitude vehicle, for example, the running device may also be a smart phone, a PC, a tablet or the like, depending on the different design requirements of the actual application.

As shown in fig. 1, the operation device may include: a processor 1001, such as a central processing unit (Central Processing Unit, CPU), a communication bus 1002, a user interface 1003, a network interface 1004, a memory 1005. Wherein the communication bus 1002 is used to enable connected communication between these components. The user interface 1003 may include a Display, an input unit such as a Keyboard (Keyboard), and the optional user interface 1003 may further include a standard wired interface, a wireless interface. The network interface 1004 may optionally include a standard wired interface, a WIreless interface (e.g., a WIreless-FIdelity (WI-FI) interface). The Memory 1005 may be a high-speed random access Memory (Random Access Memory, RAM) Memory or a stable nonvolatile Memory (NVM), such as a disk Memory. The memory 1005 may also optionally be a storage device separate from the processor 1001 described above.

It will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that the structure shown in fig. 1 is not limiting of the operating device and may include more or fewer components than shown, or certain components may be combined, or a different arrangement of components.

As shown in fig. 1, an operating system, a data storage module, a network communication module, a user interface module, and a computer program may be included in the memory 1005 as one type of storage medium.

In the operating device shown in fig. 1, the network interface 1004 is mainly used for data communication with other devices; the user interface 1003 is mainly used for data interaction with a user; the processor 1001, the memory 1005 in the operation device of the present application may be provided in an operation device that calls a computer program stored in the memory 1005 through the processor 1001 and performs the following operations:

Illustratively, the battery pack includes: the battery management units are in communication connection with each other, and one or more of the battery management units are in communication connection with the charging pile and the flight management system respectively;

the processor 1001 may call a computer program stored in the memory 1005, and also perform the following operations:

The battery pack further comprises an analog acquisition front end, and differential signals are adopted between the battery management unit and the analog acquisition front end for information transmission;

Illustratively, the communication connection between one or more of the battery management units and the charging post is a charging CAN communication connection;

The communication connection between one first battery management unit of the battery management units and the flight management system is a complete machine CAN communication connection, and the communication connection between one or more second battery management units of the battery management units and the flight management system is a trigger complete machine CAN communication connection;

the processor 1001 may call a computer program stored in the memory 1005 and also perform the following operations:

or,

Illustratively, the battery management system further comprises: the battery air cooling system and the battery heating system;

Before starting to describe each embodiment of the technical scheme of the present application, the overall concept of the technical scheme of the present application is first proposed based on the operating device structure of the hardware operating environment related to the embodiment scheme of the present application.

As the low-altitude traffic has various advantages and characteristics of high efficiency, punctuality, convenience and the like, the road traffic situation which is more and more serious at present can be solved to a great extent. In the continuous research and development process for low-altitude traffic, the development and design of the battery system of the low-altitude traffic tool are of great importance. Because the battery management system solution directly affects the safety of use of low-altitude vehicles.

In view of the above, the present application provides a battery management method, a battery management system, a battery pack, a low-altitude vehicle, and a computer storage medium, where a plurality of battery packs are designed to be connected in parallel and simultaneously connected with any one of a plurality of distribution boxes, and the high-voltage distribution connection between the plurality of distribution boxes and one or more motors is based on the plurality of distribution boxes, so that the high-voltage output of the battery packs is connected in parallel and then power is provided to the motors, and when a certain battery pack cannot normally provide power output, the remaining battery packs can still normally provide power for the motors, thereby ensuring that the low-altitude vehicle can have relatively sufficient time to realize landing, and effectively ensuring the use safety of the low-altitude vehicle.

Based on the above general conception of the technical solution of the present application, various embodiments of the battery management method and the battery management system provided by the present application are provided.

It should be noted that, the battery management method of the present application is applied to the above-mentioned operation device, and the operation device may be the above-mentioned low-altitude vehicle. It should be understood that, based on different design requirements of practical applications, the battery management method of the present application may of course also be applied to a low-altitude vehicle as an implementation subject of implementation of the solution in different possible embodiments to illustrate the battery management method of the present application.

In addition, the battery management method of the present application is applied to a battery management system including: the battery pack is electrically connected with any one of the distribution boxes in parallel, and any one of the distribution boxes is electrically connected with one or more motors respectively.

Referring to fig. 2, fig. 2 is a flowchart illustrating steps of a first embodiment of a battery management method according to the present application. It should be noted that although a logical order is depicted in the flowchart, in some cases the battery management method of the present application may of course perform the steps depicted or described in a different order than that which is depicted.

As shown in fig. 2, in a first embodiment of a control method of a high-speed communication networking system according to the present application, the control method of a high-speed communication networking system provided by the embodiment of the present application may include the following steps:

step S10, when a plurality of battery packs are in a normal state, controlling the plurality of battery packs to provide electric energy output;

step S20, when a first battery pack in a plurality of battery packs is in an abnormal state, controlling one or more second battery packs except the first battery pack in the plurality of battery packs to provide electric energy output;

And step S30, supplying the electric energy output to the motor as power energy through the distribution box.

In this embodiment, when the low-altitude vehicle including the battery management system monitors that each of the plurality of battery packs in the system is in a normal state capable of normally providing electric power, that is, the plurality of battery packs are simultaneously controlled to provide electric power output, and when the low-altitude vehicle monitors that one or more first battery packs among the plurality of battery packs are in an abnormal state incapable of normally providing electric power, the low-altitude vehicle only controls one or more second battery packs among the plurality of battery packs except for the first battery pack to provide electric power output. The low-altitude vehicle can further use one or more distribution boxes connected with a battery pack capable of providing electric energy output, and the electric energy output provided by the battery pack is used as power energy to supply power energy to one or more motors connected with the low-altitude vehicle.

Please refer to fig. 3, fig. 3 is a schematic diagram illustrating a high voltage parallel connection of a plurality of battery packs in the battery management system according to the present application. As shown in fig. 3, the battery management system provided by the present application includes:

A plurality of battery packs, a plurality of distribution boxes, and a plurality of motors;

In the battery management system provided by the embodiment of the application, the plurality of battery packs are connected with any one of the plurality of distribution boxes in parallel at the same time, and the high-voltage distribution connection between the plurality of distribution boxes and one or more motors is based on the plurality of distribution boxes, so that the electric energy can be provided for the motors after the high-voltage output of the battery packs is connected in parallel, and when a certain battery pack cannot normally provide the electric energy output, the rest battery packs can still normally provide power energy for the motors, thereby ensuring that the low-altitude vehicles can have enough time to drop and effectively ensuring the use safety of the low-altitude vehicles.

Illustratively, as shown in fig. 3, it is assumed that the battery management system provided by the present application includes 4 battery packs 101, 4 distribution boxes 102, and several motors 103. Each of the battery packs 101 is formed by serially connecting a plurality of single battery cells, each of the distribution boxes 102 is a high-voltage distribution box, and is used for distributing electric energy provided by the battery packs to the motors 103, wherein the motors 103 can be motors on low-altitude vehicles such as aerobuses, and users can realize operations of lifting, flying and landing of the low-altitude vehicles. In addition, each battery pack 101 forms a high voltage distribution connection with each distribution box 102 through a battery pack high voltage output harness 104 (also referred to as a high voltage distribution box high voltage input harness), and each distribution box 102 forms a high voltage distribution connection with the motor 103 through a high voltage distribution box output harness 105 (also referred to as a motor input harness).

In this way, the high-voltage output of the battery pack 101 is connected in parallel to provide electric energy for the motor 103, and when a certain battery pack 101 cannot normally provide electric energy output, the rest battery packs 101 can still normally provide power energy for the motor 103, so that the low-altitude vehicles can have enough time to realize landing, and the use safety of the low-altitude vehicles is effectively ensured.

In addition, the battery management system provided by the application can also enable the voltage platform of the battery pack 101 to be about 1000V or above under the condition that the battery pack 101 meets the requirement of a relatively small volume by providing the electric energy for the motor 103 through the plurality of battery packs 101, and enable the voltage platform to be high and the current to be small when the motor power is constant, so that the high-voltage wire harness can be lightened, the diameter is reduced, and the cost is reduced.

Further, the present application provides that a plurality of battery packs 101 in a battery management system can be flexibly arranged on a low-altitude vehicle such as a flying car, because only reasonable positions need to be allocated to each battery pack according to the structure of the low-altitude vehicle, which is more extensive than a conventional battery system consisting of only one battery pack.

It should be noted that, in this embodiment and other possible embodiments described later, since the low-altitude vehicles such as the aerocar have a condition that is much more complex than that of the conventional vehicle, especially when the low-altitude vehicles vertically take off from the ground, the hovering condition needs to be maintained for a relatively long time, and the battery needs to bear a large current demand (such as about 1000KW for the whole power of the aerocar, about 1000V for the voltage platform, about 1000A for the current, and about 200A for the conventional vehicle), so in the battery management system provided by the present application, the battery pack 101 and the distribution box 102 need to be connected by using the battery pack high-voltage output harness 104 to form a high-voltage distribution connection, and the distribution box 102 and the motor 103 need to also need to use the high-voltage distribution box output harness 105 to form a high-voltage distribution connection.

Further, in some possible embodiments, the battery pack in the battery management system provided by the present application includes: the battery management unit is in communication connection with the analog acquisition front end;

the battery management units of the battery packs are in communication connection with each other;

One or more of the battery management units are respectively in communication connection with the charging pile and the flight management system.

Based on this, the battery management method of the present application may further include:

In this embodiment, each battery pack in the battery management system provided by the present application includes a battery management unit BMU and an analog acquisition front end CSC, and a communication connection is further established between the battery management unit BMU and the analog acquisition front end CSC; in addition, the communication connection among the plurality of battery packs in the battery management system is also established through the respective battery management units BMU of the battery packs; in addition, among the plurality of battery management units BMU in the battery management system provided by the application, one or more battery management units BMU are also respectively in communication connection with the charging pile and the flight management system FMS.

Therefore, the low-altitude vehicle can integrate respective charging states of a plurality of battery packs on the battery management unit BMU in communication connection with the charging pile so as to interact with the charging pile, and therefore the condition that each battery pack is not overcharged can be guaranteed. In addition, when the low-altitude vehicle is in a discharging state, the battery management unit BMU integrates the discharging capability of each battery pack, so that the situation that the battery pack is not over-discharged to cause under-voltage can be ensured.

In some possible embodiments, the communication connection between the battery management unit BMU of the battery pack and the analog acquisition front end CSC in the battery management system provided by the present application may use differential signals to perform information transmission;

the communication connection established among the battery management units BMU is data CAN communication connection;

the communication connection between the one or more battery management units BMU and the charging pile is a charging CAN communication connection.

In this embodiment, in the case where the analog acquisition front end among the battery packs and the battery management unit BMU perform information transmission by using differential signals, the low-altitude vehicle may determine the respective charge/discharge states of each of the battery packs according to the differential signals transmitted from the analog acquisition front end among the battery packs to the battery management unit BMU.

Furthermore, in some possible embodiments, the low-altitude vehicle transmitting the above-described charging status to the charging stake may include:

In this embodiment, in the case where the communication connection between one or more battery management units BMU in the plurality of battery packs and the charging pile is a charging CAN communication connection, the low-altitude vehicle may integrate the charging states received by each battery management unit BMU according to the charging CAN communication connection and then send the integrated charging states to the charging pile.

As shown in fig. 4, the battery packs 101 in the battery management system provided by the present application are classified into three types, namely: battery 1, battery 2, and battery 3. Wherein, the battery management units BMU corresponding to the three types of battery packs 1, 2 and 3 are BMU1, BMU2 and BMU3, respectively. The battery management unit BMU1 and the analog acquisition front end CSC in the battery pack 1 adopt differential signal transmission information, and the battery management unit BMU1 and the charging pile 205 adopt charging CAN communication to transmit information, and the battery management unit BMU1, the battery management unit BMU2 and the battery management unit BMU3 adopt data CAN communication to transmit information. Similarly, the battery management unit BMU2 and the analog acquisition front end CSC in the battery pack 2 also adopt differential signal transmission information, and the battery management unit BMU2, the battery management unit BMU1 and the battery management unit BMU3 adopt data CAN communication transmission information; the battery management unit BMU3 and the analog acquisition front end CSC in the battery pack 3 also adopt differential signal transmission information, and the battery management unit BMU3, the battery management unit BMU1 and the battery management unit BMU2 also adopt data CAN communication transmission information.

In some possible embodiments, in the battery management system provided by the present application, a communication connection between a first battery management unit BMU1 of the plurality of battery management units BMU and the flight management system FMS is a complete machine CAN communication connection; and the communication connection between one or more second battery management units BMU2 (BMU 2 and BMU3 respectively in the case of the second battery management units) in the plurality of battery management units BMU and the flight management system FMS is the triggered complete machine CAN communication connection.

Based on this, the low-altitude vehicle transmits the above-described discharge state to the flight management system, may include:

or,

In this embodiment, as shown in fig. 4, in the battery management system provided by the present application, the battery management unit BMU1 of the battery pack 1 and the flight management system FMS adopt the complete machine CAN for communication to transmit information, and at this time, the battery management unit BMU2 of the battery pack 2 and the flight management system FMS adopt the trigger complete machine CAN for communication to transmit information.

In the embodiment of the application, the battery management system provided by the application adopts a master-slave and candidate communication scheme to carry out information transmission, and a closed-loop differential communication mode is adopted for acquisition in the battery pack, so that the condition that the uploading of the battery voltage and the temperature fails due to the disconnection of a communication harness can be avoided.

In this embodiment and other possible embodiments described later, the battery management unit BMU1 in the above-described battery pack 1 serves both as information detection of the battery pack 1 and as a role of integrating all battery pack information (information of each of the battery packs 2 and 3). And, this battery management unit BMU1 also sends the battery pack information after integrating to the flight management system FMS through complete machine CAN. In addition, the battery management unit BMU2 in the battery pack 2 is also used as information detection of the battery pack 2, and integrates all battery pack information (information of each of the battery pack 2 and the battery pack 3), and finally monitors the communication state of the complete machine CAN at all times, and once the loss duration T1 of the CAN information transmitted to the flight management system FMS by the battery management unit BMU1 is found, the battery management unit BMU2 sends the integrated battery pack information to the complete machine CAN, so that the flight management system FMS is guaranteed to receive the information of each battery pack at the time T2, and normal operation of the low-altitude vehicles is guaranteed.

Further, in some possible embodiments, the functions of the battery management unit BMU in the above-described battery pack may be divided into a function a region and a function B region. As shown in fig. 5, the function a region of the battery management unit BMU (particularly, the above-mentioned battery management unit BMU 1) mainly has functions of SOC (state of charge) calculation, SOH (state of health) calculation, SOP (state of power) calculation, SOE (state of energy) calculation, relay control, equalization control, insulation detection, fault diagnosis, total voltage detection, fuse detection, thermal runaway detection, information storage, and the like; the function B area of the BMU mainly has functions of SOC integration (SOC fitting of a plurality of battery packs), SOH integration (SOH fitting of a plurality of battery packs), SOP integration (SOP fitting of a plurality of battery packs), SOE integration (SOE fitting of a plurality of battery packs), fault integration (fault information fitting of a plurality of battery packs), charge management (managing all battery packs to charge simultaneously, managing charging current), CAN communication, and differential communication.

The functional a area is mainly aimed at detecting the state of the battery system in the battery pack 1 shown in fig. 4 and controlling the functions of the battery system, the functional B area is mainly used for integrating the state of the battery system and communication management of a plurality of battery packs, and the functional B area also comprises important charging management functions thereof, and the functional partition is helpful for building a software framework and realizing efficient management.

In other possible embodiments, the functional a area and the functional B area of the battery management unit BMU in the battery pack may also be in another form. As shown in fig. 6, the main functions of the functional a area of the BMU (especially the BMU 2) include SOC calculation, SOH calculation, SOP calculation, SOE calculation, relay control, equalization control, insulation detection, fault diagnosis, total voltage detection, fuse detection, thermal runaway detection, and information storage, while the functional B area of the BMU mainly includes SOC integration, SOH integration, SOP integration, SOE integration, fault integration, charge management, CAN communication, and differential communication.

The function a area mainly aims at detecting the battery system state and controlling the battery system functions in the battery pack 2 shown in fig. 4, and the function B area mainly integrates the battery system states and communication management of a plurality of battery packs and also includes a spare tire starting function (i.e. when the battery management unit BMU1 in the battery pack 1 cannot normally provide the required information for the flight management system FMS, the whole machine CAN data transmitting function of the battery management unit BMU2 in the battery pack 2 needs to be started, so as to ensure that the flight management system FMS CAN acquire the battery system information of the remaining battery packs). Similarly, the functional partitions are beneficial to maintenance of software construction, and the later-stage software upgrading iteration is facilitated.

In other possible embodiments, the functional a region and the functional B region of the battery management unit BMU in the battery pack may also be another form. As shown in fig. 7, the function a area of the battery management unit BMU (particularly, the above-mentioned battery management unit BMU 3) mainly has functions of SOC calculation, SOH calculation, SOP calculation, SOE calculation, relay control, equalization control, insulation detection, fault diagnosis, total voltage detection, fuse detection, thermal runaway detection, information storage, and the like, and the function B area of the battery management unit BMU mainly has functions of CAN communication, differential communication, and the like.

The function a area is mainly aimed at detecting the state of the battery system and controlling the functions of the battery system in the battery pack 3 shown in fig. 4, the function B area is mainly used for communication management, and the function partition is beneficial to flexibly adapting to a communication matrix and better expansibility.

In addition, in some possible embodiments, as shown in fig. 8, the functions of the analog acquisition front end CSC in the above-mentioned battery pack mainly include functions of voltage acquisition, temperature acquisition, equalization, differential communication, and the like. In addition, the analog acquisition front end CSC is in direct contact with the battery, and the voltage and temperature acquisition precision of the analog acquisition front end CSC plays a crucial role in the management of the battery system, while the equalization function of the analog acquisition front end CSC is beneficial to the maintenance of the consistency of the battery cells, and the differential communication between the analog acquisition front end CSC and each other or between the analog acquisition front end CSC and the battery management unit BMU can also ensure the high efficiency of information transmission.

It should be noted that, in this embodiment and other possible embodiments described below, the battery management system provided by the present application adopts a two-layer control architecture, which is different from the conventional manner in the energy storage industry, in which the first layer is a CSC layer (basic state acquisition of battery voltage and temperature, equalization control and fault diagnosis), the second layer is a BMU layer (functional partition is shown in fig. 5, 4 and 5), and the conventional manner in the energy storage industry also includes multiple parallel packets, but adopts a three-layer control architecture, namely: the first layer is an acquisition layer, the second layer is a calculation layer, and the third layer is an information interaction layer (called gateway layer). Meanwhile, the battery management system provided by the application also has the advantages that based on the extremely high requirement of low-altitude vehicles such as a flying car on the safety of the battery system, the BMU layers of the battery management units in the battery pack are of three types, namely: BMU1, BMU2, BMU3, and the three types of battery management units BMU respectively assume respective functional responsibilities, for example: 1) When the flying car is in use and any battery pack 3 in the battery packs 1, 2 and 3 is abnormal and CAN not continuously provide power for the flying car, the battery management unit BMU1 CAN timely send an alarm signal to the FMS through the complete machine CAN, and after receiving the alarm signal, the FMS CAN inform a user and find the optimal landing position in an emergency, and meanwhile, the user needs to make corresponding safety preparation; 2) Similarly, when the battery pack 2 in the battery packs 1, 2 and 3 cannot provide power, the battery management unit BMU1 also sends an alarm signal to the FMS through the complete machine CAN, and the FMS also makes corresponding actions; 3) When the battery pack 1 in the battery packs 1, 2 and 3 cannot continuously supply power to the aerocar because of the damage of the battery management unit BMU1, the battery management unit BMU1 cannot supply information of the battery system to the FMS at this time, so that the FMS detects that the BMU1 has communication loss (the continuous 1S does not receive the message information sent by the BMU 1), the FMS continuously sends three frames of status confirmation CAN messages to the BMU1, if the FMS still does not receive the BMU1 message, the FMS sends a message of a special ID to the complete machine CAN, and the message is used for activating the complete machine CAN sending function of the battery management unit BMU2 in the battery pack 2, and after the BMU2 receives the FMS complete machine to activate the cand, the aggregated information of the remaining battery packs is sent to the complete machine CAN. Therefore, the FMS can acquire the current battery pack state through the battery system information sent by the BMU 2; 4) When the battery pack 1 of the battery packs 1, 2 and 3 cannot continue to supply power to the flying car due to the damage of the non-BMU 1, the BMU1 continues to supply the battery system information to the FMS, and the FMS also performs the corresponding actions.

Further, in some possible embodiments, the battery management system provided by the present application further includes: the battery air cooling system and the battery heating system; based on this, the social application battery management method may further include:

In this embodiment, the battery air cooling system includes a cooling fan and a fan power supply relay, where the cooling fan is connected to a vehicle power supply and a commercial ac power supply through a power supply interface, and the fan power supply relay is disposed at a power supply anode of the cooling fan and is in communication connection with a battery management unit of the battery pack;

the battery heating system comprises a heating film and a heating film power supply relay, wherein the heating film is connected with a commercial alternating current power supply through a power supply interface, and the heating film power supply relay is arranged at a power supply positive electrode of the heating film and is in communication connection with the battery management unit.

In this embodiment, the battery management system provided by the present application supports air cooling and heating among the above-described battery pack functions through the battery air cooling system and the battery heating system. The battery air cooling system can comprise a cooling fan and a fan power supply relay, wherein the cooling fan is respectively connected with a vehicle power supply and a commercial alternating current power supply through a power supply interface, the fan power supply relay can be arranged at a power supply positive electrode of the cooling fan, and the fan power supply relay is in communication connection with a battery management unit of the battery pack; the battery heating system can comprise a heating film and a heating film power supply relay, wherein the heating film is connected with a commercial alternating current power supply only through a power supply interface, and the heating film power supply relay can be arranged on a power supply positive electrode of the heating film and is in communication connection with the battery management unit.

In some possible embodiments, the battery air cooling system and the battery heating system of the battery management system provided by the application can perform heat dissipation and heating for each battery pack independently under the control of a low-altitude vehicle, that is, one battery air cooling system and one battery heating system can only correspond to one battery pack.

Illustratively, as shown in fig. 9, it is assumed that each battery pack in the battery management system of the present application is provided with one battery air cooling system and one battery heating system, respectively. The cooling fan in the battery air cooling system is a fan 318, and the fan 318 is connected to the vehicle power source and the ac power source through the 28V fan power supply interface 301. In addition, the fan power supply relay 311 in the battery air cooling system is disposed at the power supply positive electrode of the fan 318, and the fan power supply relay 311 is also in communication connection with the battery management unit BMU through a fan power supply relay control line 331.

Based on the above, the air cooling function of the battery pack can be realized by means of 28V low-voltage storage battery power supply or ACDC converter directly connected with commercial alternating current on the low-altitude transportation means, and meanwhile, the battery management unit BMU of the battery pack controls the opening and closing of the fan power supply relay 311 to realize whether to open the air cooling function.

And the heating film 319 in the battery heating system of the above-described arrangement of the battery pack may be specifically a 220V resistance heating film. The heating film 319 is connected to a commercial ac power supply through a heating film 220V voltage power supply interface 303. Similarly, the heating film power supply relay 314 in the battery heating system is also provided at the power supply positive electrode of the heating film 319, and is in communication connection with the battery management unit BMU.

Based on this, the heating function of the battery pack can rely on external ac 220V power supply, and at the same time, the battery management unit BMU of the battery pack also realizes whether to turn on the heating function by controlling the opening and closing of the heating film power supply relay 314.

In this embodiment, the battery pack in the battery management system of the present application uses a low-voltage 28V fan to dissipate heat, and the 28V fan is powered by 2 power sources, when the low-altitude vehicles such as the aerocar are in a flying state, the whole machine is powered by the 28V power source, and when the aerocar is in a stopped flying state, the aerocar is powered by the 220V AC power on the ground through AC/DC voltage transformation, so that the overall weight of the battery pack can be reduced, the power consumption of the high-voltage battery pack can be reduced, and the flying distance of the aerocar can be increased. In addition, 220V alternating current power supply is adopted for heating the battery pack, namely, a maintenance person supplies power to a heating film of the battery pack through 220V at a certain time before a low-altitude vehicle such as a flying car takes off, so that the battery cell is in a relatively good temperature range without consuming high voltage of the battery pack, the weight of a conventional heat and cold system is reduced, and meanwhile, the heating rate of the heating film is relatively high, and the temperature of the battery cell of the battery pack can be quickly increased.

In some possible embodiments, the battery pack in the battery management system provided by the application comprises a plurality of single battery cells connected in series;

the output positive electrode of the battery pack includes: the high-voltage fuse, the current sensor, the pre-charging relay, the positive pole loop relay and the pre-charging resistor;

the high-voltage fuse and the current sensor are sequentially connected in series with the output anode of the battery pack, a circuit formed by the pre-charging relay and the pre-charging resistor is connected with the output anode of the battery pack in parallel, and the pre-charging relay and the positive circuit relay are in communication connection with a battery management unit of the battery pack.

As shown in fig. 9, the battery pack in the battery management system provided by the present application includes a plurality of unit cells 321 connected in series, i.e., M1 to Mn; in addition, a high voltage fuse 315 and a current sensor 316 are sequentially connected in series to the output positive electrode of the battery pack, and a pre-charge relay 312 and a pre-charge resistor 317 form a circuit, and are connected in parallel to the positive electrode loop relay 313 after the current sensor 316. In addition, the pre-charge relay 312 and the positive loop relay 313 are also in communication with the battery management unit BMU of the battery pack, i.e., the pre-charge relay 312 is in communication with the battery management unit BMU via the pre-charge relay control line 334, and the positive loop relay 313 is in communication with the battery management unit BMU via the battery pack positive output relay control line 333.

It should be noted that, in this embodiment and other possible embodiments described later, the high-voltage output of the battery pack sequentially controls the pre-charging relay 312 and the positive loop relay 313 by means of the voltage management unit BMU to realize the output of high-voltage electric energy to the outside through the high-voltage 1000V output interface 302 of the battery pack, the high-voltage fuse 315 has the function of breaking protection, the current sensor 316 has the function of collecting the main loop current, and the pre-charging resistor 317 has the function of preventing overload of heavy load current.

Further, an embodiment of the battery pack provided by the application is presented.

Referring to fig. 4, the battery pack provided by the present application includes: the battery management unit BMU is in communication connection with the analog acquisition front end CSC;

and the battery management unit BMU is in communication connection with the charging pile and/or the flight management system FMS.

Therefore, the battery management unit BMU in communication connection with the charging piles integrates the respective charging states of the plurality of battery packs to interact with the charging piles, so that the condition that each battery pack is overcharged can be avoided. In addition, when the low-altitude vehicle is in a discharging state, the battery management unit BMU integrates the discharging capability of each battery pack, so that the situation that the battery pack is not over-discharged to cause under-voltage can be ensured.

In some possible embodiments, the communication connection between the battery management unit BMU of the battery pack and the analog acquisition front end CSC provided by the present application uses differential signals to perform information transmission;

the communication connection between the battery management unit BMU and the charging pile is charging CAN communication connection, and the communication connection between the battery management unit BMU and the flight management system FMS is complete machine CAN communication connection or triggering complete machine CAN communication connection.

As shown in fig. 4, in the battery management system provided by the application, the battery management unit BMU1 of the battery pack 1 and the flight management system FMS adopt the complete machine CAN communication to transmit information, and at this time, the battery management unit BMU2 of the battery pack 2 and the flight management system FMS adopt the trigger complete machine CAN communication to transmit information.

In some possible embodiments, the battery pack provided by the application comprises a plurality of single battery cells connected in series;

As shown in fig. 9, the battery pack in the battery management system provided by the present application includes a plurality of unit cells 321 connected in series, namely: m1 to Mn; in addition, a high voltage fuse 315 and a current sensor 316 are sequentially connected in series to the output positive electrode of the battery pack, and a pre-charge relay 312 and a pre-charge resistor 317 form a circuit, and are connected in parallel to the positive electrode loop relay 313 after the current sensor 316. In addition, the pre-charge relay 312 and the positive loop relay 313 are also in communication with the battery management unit BMU of the battery pack, i.e., the pre-charge relay 312 is in communication with the battery management unit BMU via the pre-charge relay control line 334, and the positive loop relay 313 is in communication with the battery management unit BMU via the battery pack positive output relay control line 333.

It should be noted that, in this embodiment, the high-voltage output of the battery pack sequentially controls the pre-charging relay 312 and the positive loop relay 313 by means of the voltage management unit BMU to realize the external output of high-voltage electric energy through the high-voltage 1000V output interface 302 of the battery pack, the high-voltage fuse 315 has the function of breaking protection, the current sensor 316 has the function of collecting main loop current, and the pre-charging resistor 317 has the function of preventing overload of heavy load current.

In addition, the application also provides a low-altitude vehicle, which comprises the battery management system or the battery system according to any embodiment, a memory, a processor and a computer program stored on the memory and capable of running on the processor.

In addition, the specific implementation manner of the low-altitude vehicle of the present application that adopts the battery management system or the battery system to run the computer program is basically the same as the respective embodiments of the battery management method, the battery management system or the battery pack, and is not repeated herein.

In addition, an embodiment of the present application further provides a storage medium, which is a computer-readable storage medium, and on which a computer program is stored, the computer program implementing the steps of the battery management method as described above when being executed by a processor.

It should be noted that, in this document, the terms "comprises," "comprising," or any other variation thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of elements does not include only those elements but may include other elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus. Without further limitation, an element defined by the phrase "comprising one … …" does not exclude the presence of other like elements in a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises the element.

The foregoing embodiment numbers of the present application are merely for the purpose of description, and do not represent the advantages or disadvantages of the embodiments.

The foregoing description is only of the preferred embodiments of the present application, and is not intended to limit the scope of the application, but rather is intended to cover any equivalents of the structures or equivalent processes disclosed herein or in the alternative, which may be employed directly or indirectly in other related arts.

Claims

1. A battery management method, wherein the method is applied to a battery management system, the system comprising: the battery packs are electrically connected with any one of the distribution boxes in parallel, and any one of the distribution boxes is electrically connected with one or more motors respectively;

The method comprises the following steps:

2. The battery management method according to claim 1, wherein the battery pack includes: the battery management units are in communication connection with each other, and one or more of the battery management units are in communication connection with the charging pile and the flight management system respectively;

the method further comprises the steps of:

3. The battery management method according to claim 2, wherein the battery pack further comprises an analog acquisition front end, and a differential signal is adopted between the battery management unit and the analog acquisition front end for information transmission;

the method further comprises the steps of:

4. A battery management method according to claim 3, wherein the communication connection between one or more of the battery management units and the charging post is a charging CAN communication connection;

transmitting the state of charge to the charging stake includes:

5. The battery management method of claim 3, wherein the communication connection between a first battery management unit of the plurality of battery management units and the flight management system is a complete machine CAN communication connection, and the communication connection between one or more second battery management units of the plurality of battery management units and the flight management system is a triggered complete machine CAN communication connection;

Transmitting the discharge status to the flight management system, comprising:

or,

6. The battery management method according to claim 1, wherein the battery management system further comprises: the battery air cooling system and the battery heating system;

7. A battery management system, the battery management system comprising: a plurality of battery packs, a plurality of distribution boxes, and a plurality of motors;

8. A battery pack, the battery pack comprising: the battery management unit is in communication connection with the analog acquisition front end;

9. A low-altitude vehicle comprising the battery management system of claim 7 or the battery pack of claim 8, a memory, a processor, and a computer program stored on the memory and executable on the processor, the computer program configured to implement the steps of the battery management method of any one of claims 1 to 6.

10. A computer storage medium, characterized in that the storage medium is a computer readable storage medium, on which a computer program is stored, which computer program, when being executed by a processor, realizes the steps of the battery management method according to any one of claims 1 to 6.