Patent ID: 7400115

Claim:
A method for determining an estimated combined battery state-parameter vector indicative of both a state and a parameter of a battery at a first predetermined time, the method comprising: determining a first plurality of estimated augmented combined battery state-parameter vectors that are indicative of both a state and a parameter of the battery, a battery input noise, a sensor noise associated with a sensor measuring a battery output variable, an uncertainty of both the state and parameter of the battery, an uncertainty of the battery input noise, and an uncertainty of the sensor noise, at a second predetermined time prior to the first predetermined time; determining a second plurality of predicted combined battery state-parameter vectors that are indicative of both the state and the parameter of the battery and an uncertainty of the both state and parameter of the battery at the first predetermined time based on the first plurality of estimated augmented combined battery state-parameter vectors; determining a third plurality of predicted battery output vectors that are indicative of at least one output variable of the battery and an uncertainty of the output variable at the first predetermined time based on the first plurality of estimated augmented combined battery state-parameter vectors and the second plurality of predicted combined battery state-parameter vectors; determining a first battery output vector having at least one measured value of the battery output variable; and determining a first estimated combined battery state-parameter vector indicative of both the state and the parameter of the battery at the first predetermined time based on the second plurality of predicted combined battery state-parameter vectors, the third plurality of predicted battery output vectors, and the first battery output vector.