Performance Comparison of Long Short-Term Memory and a Temporal Convolutional Network for State of Health Estimation of a Lithium-Ion Battery using Its Charging Characteristics

The market for eco-friendly batteries is increasing owing to population growth, environmental pollution, and energy crises. The widespread application of lithium-ion batteries necessitates their state of health (SOH) estimation, which is a popular and difficult area of research. In general, the capacity of a battery is selected as a direct health factor to characterize the degradation state of the battery’s SOH. However, it is difficult to directly measure the actual capacity of a battery. Therefore, this study extracted three features from the current, voltage, and internal resistance of a lithium-ion battery during its charging–discharging process to estimate its SOH. A battery-accelerated aging test system was designed to obtain time series battery degradation data. A performance comparison of lithium-ion battery SOH fitting results was conducted for two different deep learning architectures, a long short-term memory (LSTM) network and temporal convolution network (TCN), which are time series deep learning networks based on a recurrent neural network (RNN) and convolutional neural network (CNN), respectively. The results showed that the proposed method has high prediction accuracy, while the performance of the TCN was 3% better than that of the LSTM regarding the average maximum relative error in SOH estimation of a lithium-ion battery.