Multidisciplinary Design Optimization with a New Effective Method

Collaborative optimization （CO） is one of the most widely used methods in multidisciplinary design optimization （MDO）, which is an effective methodology to solve modem complex engineering problems. CO consists of two-level optimization problems which are system optimization problem and subspace optimization problem. The architecture of CO can reserve the autonomy of individual disciplines in maximum, while providing a mechanism for coordinating design problem. However, CO has low computation efficiency and is easy to diverge. For the purpose of solving these problems, the former improved methods were studied. The relaxation factors were used to change the system consistency constraints to inequality constraints, or the response surface estimation was used to surrogate the system consistency constraints. However, these methods didn＇t avoid the computational difficulties very well, furthermore, some new problems arose. The concept of optimum constraint sensitivity was proposed, and the quadratic constraints in system level were reformed. Hence, a new collaborative optimization was developed, which is called system level dynamic constraint collaborative optimization （DCCO）. The novel method is able to increase the exchange of information between system level and disciplinary level. The optimization results of each disciplinary optimization can be feedback to system level with the optimum constraint sensitivity. On the basis of the information, the new system level linear dynamic constraints can be constructed; it is better to reflect the effect of disciplinary level optimizations. The system level optimizer can clearly capture the boundary where disciplinary objective functions become zero, and considerably enhance the convergence. Two standard MDO examples were conducted to verify the feasibility and effectiveness of DCCO. The results show that DCCO can save the solving time, and is much better in terms of convergence and robustness, hence, the new method is more efficient.

An Online Adaptive Internal Short Circuit Detection Method of Lithium-Ion Battery

Internal short circuit(ISC)is a critical cause for the dangerous thermal runaway of lithium-ion battery(LIB);thus,the accurate early-stage detection of the ISC failure is critical to improving the safety of electric vehicles.In this paper,a model-based and self-diagnostic method for online ISC detection of LIB is proposed using the measured load current and terminal voltage.An equivalent circuit model is built to describe the characteristics of ISC cell.A discrete-time regression model is formulated for the faulty cell model through the system transfer function,based on which the electrical model parameters are adapted online to keep the model accurate.Furthermore,an online ISC detection method is exploited by incorporating an extended Kalman filter-based state of charge estimator,an abnormal charge depletion-based ISC current estimator,and an ISC resistance estimator based on the recursive least squares method with variant forgetting factor.The proposed method shows a self-diagnostic merit relying on the single-cell measurements,which makes it free from the extra uncertainty caused by other cells in the system.Experimental results suggest that the online parameterized model can accurately predict the voltage dynamics of LIB.The proposed diagnostic method can accurately identify the ISC resistance online,thereby contributing to the early-stage detection of ISC fault in the LIB.