BatPaC is a software modeling tool designed for policymakers and researchers who are interested in estimating the cost of lithium-ion batteries after they have reached a mature state of development and are being manufactured in high volumes. The tool captures the interplay between the design and cost of these batteries for transportation applications.

BatPaC comes with a library of several lithium-ion battery chemistries and default inputs for all the parameters specified in different manufacturing areas of a factory.

Applications

• Estimates the cost of manufacturing lithium-ion batteries
• Examines trade-offs that result from different user requirements such as power, energy, charging time, etc.

Features

• Supports simulation and design with precise battery mass and dimensions, cost performance characteristics, and battery pack values from bench-scale results
• Calculates battery pack-level quantities by adding together all the battery components that are designed to meet user-defined specifications
• Determines the performance of a given battery chemistry/cell/pack design in batteries for four types of electric vehicle applications

Technical Details/Requirements

• Microsoft Excel-based application

Autonomie is capable of:

• Model-in-the-Loop (MIL), Software-in-the-Loop (SIL), Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) and Rapid-Control-Prototyping (RCP)
• Integrating math-based engineering activities through all stages of development
• Mixing and matching models of different levels of abstraction with higher fidelity models where analysis and high-detail understanding is critical

Autonomie provides the environment and standard framework to make an entire engineering organization more efficient through the reuse and sharing of models and methods, and by leveraging modeling and control experts across different areas.

Autonomie gives your organization the capabilities for total control and integration of your multidisciplinary engineering design processes to ensure a quality design that is executed almost flawlessly from the first hardware build.

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Applications

• Automotive engineering
• Any simple or complex engineering application that requires the integration of many systems or subsystems

Features

• Provides for rapid and easy integration of models with varying levels of detail
• User-friendly graphical interface
• Supports customizable workflow
• Links with commercial off-the-shelf software applications for detailed, physically-based models, including GT-Power©, AMESim©, CarSim©, AVL-DRIVE©
• Provides configuration and database management
• Protects proprietary models and processes

Technical Details/Requirements

Autonomie requires:

• Windows XP, Vista
• MATLAB®
• Simulink®
• Stateflow®
• Microsoft .NET 2.0
• 1GB RAM

Licensing Information

Argonne offers first-line technical support as well as on-site training of Autonomie for companies, research institutions and universities.

If you are interested in licensing the Autonomie software, please the complete the Licensing Request Form. If you have questions, please contact autonomie-​licensing@​anl.​gov.

For technical support, please contact autonomie-​help@​anl.​gov.

Argonne provides support for U.S. Government activities at autonomie-​government-​support@​anl.​gov.