INCOBAT: Innovative Cost Efficient Management System for Next Generation High Voltage Batteries

Electro-mobility is considered a key technology to achieving green mobility and fulfiling tomorrow’s emission standards. That being said, challenges still need to be dealt with in order to achieve comparable performances to conventional vehicles and finally obtain market acceptance. Two of these challenges are vehicle range and production costs. The aim of the INCOBAT project (October 2013 - December 2016) was to provide innovative and cost efficient battery management systems for next generation HV-batteries.

INCOBAT presents a platform concept that achieves cost reduction, reduced complexity, increased reliability, and flexibility while at the same time reaching higher energy efficiency. Advantages of this approach include:

- Tight control of the cell function leading to a significant increase of the driving range of the FEV
- Radical cost reduction of the battery management system with respect to current solutions
- Development of modular concepts for system architecture and partitioning, safety, security, and reliability as well as verification and validation, thus enabling efficient integration into different vehicle platforms

The INCOBAT project focused on the following 12 technical innovations grouped into four innovation groups, which are summarized in this book:

- Customer needs and integration aspects
- Transversal innovation
- Technology innovation
- Transversal innovation

Topics covered include: Electric Vehicles, High Voltage Battery, Battery Management System, Multi-core Computing Platform, Functional Safety, Systems Engineering, Reliability, Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy, and Thermomechanical Robustness Analysis.