State of Health Estimation of Lithium-Ion Batteries Using a Multi-Feature-Extraction Strategy and PSO-NARXNN

Abstract

The lithium-ion battery state of health (SOH) estimation is critical for maintaining reliable and safe working conditions for electric vehicles (EVs). However, accurate and robust SOH estimation remains a significant challenge. This paper proposes a multi-feature extraction strategy and particle swarm optimization-nonlinear autoregressive with exogenous input neural network (PSO-NARXNN) for accurate and robust SOH estimation. First, eight health features (HFs) are extracted from partial voltage, capacity, differential temperature (DT), and incremental capacity (IC) curves. Then, qualitative and quantitative analyses are used to evaluate the selected HFs. Second, the PSO algorithm is adopted to optimize the hyperparameters of NARXNN, including input delays, feedback delays, and the number of hidden neurons. Third, to verify the effectiveness of the multi-feature extraction strategy, the SOH estimators based on a single feature and fusion feature are comprehensively compared. To verify the effectiveness of the proposed PSO-NARXNN, a simple three-layer backpropagation neural network (BPNN) and a conventional NARXNN are built for comparison based on the Oxford aging dataset. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method has higher accuracy and stronger robustness for SOH estimation, where the average mean absolute error (MAE) and root mean square error (RMSE) are 0.47% and 0.56%, respectively.