Real-time core temperature prediction of prismatic automotive lithium-ion battery cells based on artificial neural networks

For modeling of the non-linear heat generation and thermal effects in Li-ion batteries, artificial neural networks are a great solution to represent the thermal behavior for the battery management system in an electric vehicle. Several studies have proven the high accuracy with large benefits in computing-time and complexity compared to detailed electrochemical-thermal models. Commonly used feedforward networks need to prove suitability for dynamic applications but are always limited due to missing information about the previous time steps or need external sensor information. In this work, a novel Nonlinear AutoRegressive with eXogenous (NARX)-network is developed and parameterized for a large 25Ah prismatic cell. The NARX is compared to a feedforward using the same general structure and input data in terms of training, validation behavior, long-term prediction and dynamic driving application. Both ANN approaches prove to be adequate for the temperature prediction with an accuracy within 1K during long-term prediction of 10h. Additionally, in a BEV application with realtime requirements the thermal models predicting the dynamic temperature behavior with high precision and robustness without even a temperature input in case of the NARX-approach.

Automated summary

An innovative NARX network was developed and compared to traditional feedforward networks for temperature prediction in Li-ion batteries, demonstrating higher accuracy and robustness. In terms of long-term prediction and dynamic applications, the NARX network showed superior performance.