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Battery Data Analysis

Fall 2021, Fall 2022

University of Michigan

Sponsors and Affiliates:

• Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP)
• Michigan Research and Discovery Scholars (MRADS)
• Research, Innovation, Service and Entrepreneurship (RISE) Program

Goals

1. Contribute to the frontiers of battery research
2. Pick up practical analysis and programming skills
3. Learn how batteries work

Research

• You pick what project you want to work on
• Theme: methods for battery lifetime modeling, estimation, and prediction
• Theme: data-driven analysis and modeling of battery behavior
• End goal: technical reports, presentations, and journal publications

Programming

• Version control and project management in GitHub
• Python for data analysis and batery modeling (PyBAMM)
• Developing sound programming best practices to produce high-quality code

Batteries

• Working principles of battery operation
• Basic materials science and electrochemistry of batteries
• How batteries are modeled from a systems perspective

Format

• Weekly group check-ins

  • Report on work progress since last week
  • Discuss open questions, concerns, difficulties
  • Assign next steps for next week

• Work product

  • Share your work by creating Pull Requests in the repository

• Keep in touch via Slack

• How this semester will go:

  • For the first two weeks: get oriented with tools and project scope
  • Remaining time: commit to a specific project, goals, and finish it
  • Drop by Autolab 2032 during work hours if you want a dedicated space to focus
    • Doors are unlocked as long as at least one of us is there
  • I will host 'Office Hours' for 1 hour per week per student

Datasets

Fast formation dataset

• Archived version for Joule paper submission: https://doi.org/10.7302/pa3f-4w30
• Live version: ask Andrew for Dropbox permissions