Local-Properties-Embedding-Based Nonlinear Spatiotemporal Modeling for Lithium-Ion Battery Thermal Process

Abstract

The temperature distribution of a lithium-ion battery (LIB) belongs to a nonlinearly distributed parameter system (DPS), which is infinite dimensional in the space direction. Modeling of such systems often leads to the following challenges: time/space-coupled dynamics; time-varying dynamics; and spatial nonlinearity. For the first two challenges, Karhunen–Loeve (KL) decomposition based data-driven spatiotemporal models have been widely researched and successfully applied to industrial thermal processes. However, this method is a global linear model reduction method that ignores the nonlinear properties of measurements. This will prohibit the model performance of a strong nonlinear DPS, which has strong spatial nonlinearity refers to the aforementioned third challenge. To address this problem, a local-properties-embedding-based modeling method is developed for the nonlinear DPS. First, the finite-dimensional nonlinear spatial basis functions that can be the representative of the nonlinear feature of the original space are learned by the local-properties-embedding-based method. Then, the low-dimensional representative can be derived using the time/space separation and the unknown temporal coefficients can be identified through the traditional neural learning algorithm. Finally, the spatiotemporal temperature distribution can be reconstructed by the time/space synthesis. Since the nonlinear structure feature of the spatiotemporal datasets has been considered, the proposed modeling method can be more effective than the traditional KL-based method for modeling the nonlinear DPS. Numerical simulations on the LIB showed that the proposed methods are more robust than the KL-based method in both the time direction and the space direction.