Battery Management via System Reconfiguration

IEEE Vehicular Technology Chapter Presentation Battery Management via System Reconfiguration Dr. Liang He, University of Michigan, USA Abstract: Batteries are widely used in various systems such as electric vehicles, aircraft, and mobile devices including smartphones and tablets. Efficient battery management protocols are highly demanded for system optimization, because of the non-linear battery properties and the limited energy storage capacity. In this seminar, some recent exploration in battery management with a CPS approach will be presented, to improve battery management in the cyber space based on their unique physical properties. Specifically, we will explain a few battery properties and show how they affect the system performance; then we will introduce our design on exploiting active reconfiguration to optimize system performance based on such properties. We will also highlight several on-going/future investigation directions such as reconfiguration-assisted battery monitoring and thermal management. Dr. Liang He is currently a research fellow at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. He worked as a research scientist at Singapore University of Technology and Design during 2011-2014 and a research assistant at University of Victoria, Canada, during 2009-2011. He received the B.Eng. degree from Tianjin University, China, in 2006 and Ph.D. degree from Nankai University, China, in 2011. His research interests mainly focus on cyber-physical systems, mobile computing, and sensor networks. He has published over 50 research papers at premier venues such as RTSS, ICCPS, MobiHoc, INFOCOM, and TMC. He is the recipient of the best paper awards of GLOBECOM’11, WCSP’11, and QShine’14.