From January 17th to January 19th, 2024, the BATTwin consortium celebrated the Kick-off Meeting at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Politecnico di Milano, in Italy. 

The consortium had the opportunity to touch upon the objectives of the project, discuss the future steps, plan the work for the next phase of the project and visit the laboratories of the Department of Mechanical Engineering.

Coordinated by Prof. Marcello Colledani within Politecnico di Milano, and involving sixteen partners, BATTwin - Flexible and scalable digital-twin platform for enhanced production efficiency and yield in battery cell production lines, started on December 1st, 2023. The project, awarded with €6.9 million, aims to support the ramp-up phase of the European battery gigafactories by developing a Multi-level Digital Twin platform for Zero-Defect Manufacturing in battery production that will reduce defect rates in battery production lines. The solution integrates (i) a multi-sensor data acquisition and management layer, supported by data semantics through a Digital Battery Passport data model, (ii) process-level digital twins, modeling the critical stages of electrode manufacturing, cell assembly and conditioning, (iii) system-level digital twins and (iv) user-centric, goal-driven digital twin workflows. This approach will be tested in two industrial pilots producing different battery chemistries and geometries, validating the flexibility and scalability of the approach towards Zero Defect European Gigafactories.

The research unit „Distributed Control in Interconnected Systems” of the Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg is thrilled to be part of this project as partner on the development of digital twins for battery production stages with a focus on their use in monitoring, state stimation, and control.