Designing a new generalized battery management system.Designing a new generalized battery management system. Peer-Reviewed Journal Publication Δημοσίευση σε Περιοδικό με Κριτές 2015-10-012003enBattery management systems (BMSs) are used in many battery-operated industrial and commercial systems to make the battery operation more efficient and the estimation of battery state nondestructive. The existing BMS techniques are examined in this paper and a new design methodology for a generalized reliable BMS is proposed. The main advantage of the proposed BMS compared to the existing systems is that it provides a fault-tolerant capability and battery protection. The proposed BMS consists of a number of smart battery modules (SBMs) each of which provides battery equalization, monitoring, and battery protection to a string of battery cells. An evaluation SBM was developed and tested in the laboratory and experimental results verify the theoretical expectations.Δημοσίευση σε επιστημονικό περιοδικό http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics550990-999 Chatzakis J. Kalaitzakis Kostas Καλαϊτζακης Κωστας Voulgaris N. Manias S. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Battery management systems Design methodology Fault tolerance Fault tolerant systems battery monitoring battery protection