Battery Cycle Life & Performance Optimization for Small and Medium-Sized Robotic Platforms

Galley Power is proposing to design, develop and evaluate energy management controllers for battery cycle life and performance optimization on small and medium-size robotic platforms. Galley Power's innovative concepts include 1) an integrated adaptive battery performance and life model; 2) a control framework so that batteries with different performance and cycle life characteristics can be compared and controlled; 3) high efficiency power train to balance the series/parallel BB-2590 batteries without affecting the battery's transient or continuous power delivery performance. This controller will have small form-factor and low power consumption, allowing it to be configurable meet differ robotic platform requirements. Galley Power is also proposing to develop mission profile models to establish the baseline performance evaluation methodology and test protocols to assess the performance improvement of the proposed solution in simulation and measurement. Galley Power also proposes to develop bench top prototypes to demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed design.