Abstract:Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) can reflect the critical internal state information of batteries, and using EIS can achieve the monitoring and fault diagnosis of batteries to avoid safety accidents. Aiming at the fact that electric vehicles have the highest probability of safety accidents during charging and most of the safety accidents are caused by short circuit of batteries, the short circuit fault diagnosis method of lithium battery module is studied by taking charging pile for example. Firstly, the topology and control method of the designed charging pile,and the principle for impedance measurement of battery module are described in detail. And then, the simulation verifies that the charging pile can charge and discharge the battery module at the same time and extract its impedance information. The advantages and disadvantages of two kinds of disturbance signals, and the impedance changes of battery cells and battery modules under different degrees of short-circuit faults are analyzed and compared as well as the effects of short circuit on module impedance of batteries in different branches. Finally, it is concluded that the impedance spectroscopy of both battery cell and battery module can shrink and shift to the left under a short-circuit fault, and the more the short-circuited cells are concentrated in the same branch, the more obvious the impedance change of module is.