BATTERY MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD

A battery management apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a profile generating unit configured to obtain a battery profile representing a correspondence between voltage and SOC of a battery and generate a differential profile representing a correspondence between the SOC and a differential voltage of the SOC based on the obtained battery profile; and a control unit configured to receive the differential profile from the profile generating unit, calculate a degree of association between the differential profile and a preset criterion profile, and judge a type of a negative electrode of the battery based on the calculated degree of association.