Voltage profile reconstruction and state of health estimation for lithium-ion batteries under dynamic working conditions

The state of health (SOH) of batteries is an important but unmeasurable parameter closely related to battery safety and durability. However, most existing SOH estimation strategies rely on a specific load profile (e.g., constant current). To tackle this issue, we here report a method that first converts the dynamic voltage trajectories to the curves corresponding to the constant current profiles using a neural network model. Then, the aging characteristics are selected and the battery SOH is estimated accordingly from the converted voltage data using a Gaussian process regression model. Batteries with different aging degrees are tested with different working conditions to verify the proposed method. Numerically, the errors of the voltage reconstruction are bounded within 2 mV, while the SOH estimation errors under four dynamic working conditions remain within 2%. Our technical approach reduces the dependency of traditional SOH estimation methods on specific working conditions and shows strong potential for practical applications.

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This study proposes a new method for estimating the state of health (SOH) of batteries, which reduces the dependency on specific working conditions and shows strong potential for practical applications.