New Funding for Battery Reliability Research

SRSL has received research funding from the National Science Foundation for a new project on battery reliability assessment. This project is titled “Data-Driven Dynamic Reliability Assessment of Lithium-Ion Battery Considering Degradation Mechanisms.” This three-year project ($330K in total) will be carried out through collaboration with Dr. Shan Hu (ISU ME). It will create a dynamic reliability assessment platform for lithium-ion batteries that will enable battery management system (BMS) to develop predictive maintenance/control through concurrently analyzing degradation mechanisms and anticipating failure modes.

New Funding for Resilience Research

SRSL has received research funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for the project titled “Designing Complex Cyber-Physical Systems for Failure Resilience”. This two-year project ($175K in total) will develop a novel design platform to improve failure resilience in complex cyber-physical systems (CPSs).

Dr. Hu Presented at ISU EPRC Spring Meeting

Dr. Chao Hu spoke in an invited seminar at the Electric Power Research Center (EPRC) meeting on Thursday, Jun. 2, 2016. The seminar was sponsored by the EPRC at Iowa State University. The title of his presentation was “Intelligent Failure Prognostics of Lithium-Ion Energy Storage and Renewable Energy Systems.”

Paper Accepted by MST

Journal paper (joint work with Yu Jiang and Zhixiong Li from China University of Mining and Technology and Zhongxiao Peng from University of New South Wales) titled “On the bi-dimensional variational decomposition applied to nonstationary vibration signals for rolling bearing crack detection in coal cutters” has been accepted for publication by Measurement Science and Technology.