Recent advancement of remaining useful life prediction of lithium-ion battery in electric vehicle applications: A review of modelling mechanisms, network configurations, factors, and outstanding issues

Abstract

The remaining useful life (RUL) prediction of lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) plays a crucial role in battery management, safety assurance, and the anticipation of maintenance needs for reliable electric vehicle (EV) operation. An efficient prediction of RUL can ensure its safe operation and prevent both internal and external failures, as well as avoid any unwanted catastrophic events. However, achieving precise RUL prediction for electric vehicles presents a challenging task due to several issues related to intricate operational characteristics and dynamic shifts in model parameters throughout the aging process, battery parameters data extraction, data preprocessing, and hyperparameters tuning of the prediction model. This phenomenon significantly impacts the advancement of electric vehicle technology. To address these challenges, this study offers a comprehensive overview of various RUL prediction methods, presenting a comparative analysis of their outcomes, advantages, drawbacks, and associated research constraints. Emphasis is placed on the necessity of a battery management system (BMS) to ensure the safe and reliable functioning of LIBs. The review delves into crucial implementation factors, including battery test bench considerations, data selection, feature extraction, data preprocessing, performance evaluation indicators, and hyperparameter tuning. Additionally, the issues and challenges related to RUL prediction approaches such as; thermal runaway, material selection, cell balancing, battery aging, relaxation impact, training algorithms, data acquisition, and hyperparameter tuning were outlined to provide an in-depth understanding of the recent situations. The outcome of this review comprehensively examines various methods for predicting the RUL of LIB in EV applications, offering insights into their advantages, limitations, and research challenges. Recommendations for future trends in LIBs technology comprise enhancing prognostic accuracy and developing robust approaches to guarantee sustainable operation and management.