Energy Storage System Test Bed

The Manufacturing Demonstration Facility plans to create a test bed for batteries which will simulate their operation over a variety of different scenarios, to test qualities such as the time it takes the battery to charge to different levels or how accurately it measures its own state of charge. In order to use this hardware, a user friendly software system is necessary to allow users to run these tests (or “use cases”). Thus, the Energy Storage System Test Bed software component was developed. This system features a web based user interface (UI) that will allow users to define a use case and schedule it for execution. The use case will then be stored in a queue to eventually be run. The code managing the hardware will then read use cases from this queue and execute them on the hardware. As the use case runs, the simulator will measure the state of the battery being tested and regularly report it back to the system. This entire history of measurements can then be viewed alongside the use case that produced them inside the UI.