This research proposes a method for estimating the residual capacity of Li-ion batteries. The charging and discharging characteristics of Li-ion batteries are investigated and analyzed by a battery test system. The measurement of the initial capacity is based on the improved open-circuit voltage measurement, which compensates the effects of battery aging and self-discharging. The measurement of the used capacity is based on the improved coulomb counting measurement, which compensates the effects of output current and environmental temperature. The designed system provides various functions for battery charging and discharging, battery voltage measuring and recording, battery capacity estimation and calculation, and the log files can be used for further battery characteristics analysis.

This research proposes a smart battery management system applied to Li-Battery. The system not only can monitor the batteries for all kinds of parameters but also modify them by users. Besides, in estimating the residual capacity of Li-ion batteries, an automatic measurement platform is set up in order to record the data of Li-battery in different kinds of charge-discharge condition and to analysis the characteristics. In monitoring used battery capacity, Modified-Coulomb-Measuring method is proposed and it can accurately estimate the residual capacity according to the effect of output current and environment temperature. In addition to estimate the residual capacity accurately, Smart Battery System can record the information of Li-batteries over a long period of time, and the log files can be used for further battery characteristics analysis.

The topic of this study is to develop a battery capacity management system. The main purpose is to monitor the state of battery during charging and discharging. Form this, user can know the battery status and to avoid loss of data before sudden system power down caused by a spent battery. Different states of battery were collected in different conditions by a battery measurement system, after which characteristics were analyzed. A fast-charge and residual capacity estimation system was developed according to the battery characteristics. The fast-charge system is a technique that emphasizes not only fastness charging but also safety. In this study a fast-charge end method was adopted to terminate the fast charging state of the battery and the initial state had been estimated before charging. Furthermore, the battery was charged with the optimum method according to the battery initial state. That can recover the capacity of the battery within a short period without causing any side effects from repeated usage. The residual capacity estimation system works by first estimating the initial capacity of the batteries, and then recording the current of batteries continuously using the coulomb counting method to make compensation for the effects of battery aging, environmental temperature, self-discharging, and output current.