foxBMS 2
foxBMS is a free, open and flexible development environment to design battery
management systems.
It is the first modular open source BMS development platform.
Overview
foxBMS is an universal hardware and software platform providing a fully open
source BMS development platform.
foxBMS aims to control modern and complex electrical energy storage systems of
any size.
foxBMS is successfully used for electrical energy storage consisting of
- Lithium-Ion and Solid State Batteries
- Lithium-Sulfur Batteries
- Sodium-Ion Batteries
- Lithium-Ion Capacitors (LIC)
- Electric Double-Layer Capacitors (EDLC, supercapacitors or ultracaps)
- Redox-Flow Batteries (RFB) (e.g., Vanadium Redox-Flow), and
- Fuel Cells (FC)
or in an hybrid combination of these and in various domains.
Documentation
A current build of the documentation of this project can be found
here:
Changelog
The project changelog is found in
docs/general/changelog.rst.
Installation Instructions
See INSTALL.md for installation instructions.
Graphical User Interface
The GUI requires a successful installation as described in INSTALL.md.
foxBMS 2 contains a basic GUI to support BMS development tasks (e.g., building
binaries, updating the BMS through the bootloader).
The GUI can either be opened by running ./fox.ps1 gui or if PowerShell is
installed available at C:\Program Files\PowerShell\7\pwsh.exe it can also
be run by double-clicking gui.lnk in the root of the repository.
Repository Structure
The repository is structured as follows:
| Directory Name |
Content Description |
. |
The repository root contains the license information, installation instructions, a link to the changelog, the main build script |
cli |
CLI tool to interact with the repository |
conf |
Contains all high level configurations |
docs |
Documentation source files |
hardware |
Hardware schematic and layout information |
src |
Parent directory for all source files for the BMS embedded software |
tests |
Tests for embedded sources, the toolchain, and scripts |
tools |
Tools needed to build foxBMS binaries and additional tools to work with foxBMS |
These directories each have a README.md that explain the content of the
directory.
License
The license information of the project is found in LICENSE.md.
Basically, the software is covered by the
BSD 3-Clause License (SPDX short identifier: BSD-3-Clause)
and the hardware and documentation by the
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (SPDX short identifier: CC-BY-4.0).
Open Source Hardware Certification
foxBMS 2 has been certified as open source hardware by the
Open Source Hardware Association under the OSHWA UID
DE000128.
Acknowledgment
For funding acknowledgements and instructions on how to acknowledge foxBMS 2
please see foxbms.org/acknowledgements.
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