This paper proposes a method for estimating the state of health (SOH) of lithium‐ion batteries (LIBs) using a combination of vision transformer (VIT) and gated recurrent unit (GRU) networks. The new scheme adopts a VIT to extract features from the battery measured data and incorporates a GRU network to mitigate the limitations of the VIT caused by positional encoding. The resulting VIT‐GRU network is designed to comprehensively capture information relevant to the battery SOH. Simulation experiments on the NASA dataset illustrate the notable results achieved by the VIT‐GRU, with prediction root mean square error (RMSE) and mean absolute error (MAE) up to 0.54% and 0.38%, respectively, demonstrating the exceptional performance of the VIT‐GRU network in SOH estimation. Compared to other complex deep learning (DL) methods, the VIT‐GRU significantly outperforms them, according to the RMSE and MAE of the predicted values.
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