Patent ID: 9535480
Date: 2017-01-03
CPC Classifications: G05B,G06F,G06N,H02J

Claim:
1. A hybrid energy storage system comprising: at least one battery storage element; at least one capacitor storage element; and a power management system for controlling power using a hardware processor through the battery storage element and the capacitor storage element, the power management system comprising a long term battery management layer for estimating and managing a life cycle for the battery, and a real time power management layer for managing power sharing between the at least one battery storage element and the at least one capacitor storage element at each time instant dependent upon adjustments to battery performance based upon the long term battery management layer; wherein the at least one capacitor storage element is an ultra-capacitor; wherein the real time power management layer comprises an instant real time optimization module, an instant real time efficiency improvement module, and an ultra-capacitor state of charge regulation module; wherein the instant real time optimization module comprises a total cost function: wherein, ƒ