An agent-based approach for battery management systems

This paper describes a novel agent-based battery management system for large battery packs. The proposed architecture enables a more resilient and flexible approach, where, for example, cell balancing is achieved through local coordination of neighboring cells. A framework for co-simulation Matlab/Simulink and JADE is also proposed to enable simulations where the physical system is modeled in Simulink and where control agents are programmed in JADE.