Online state of health estimation for lithium-ion batteries based on a dual self-attention multivariate time series prediction network

With the development of cloud and edge computing, deep learning based on big data has been widely utilized for lithium-ion battery state of health (SoH) online estimation, where improving the accuracy, robustness, and real-time applicability are current research challenges. Focusing on these points, this paper proposes a novel health feature analysis and screening method and a dual self-attention multivariate time series estimation network (DSMTNet). First, the correlation between all feature sequences and the SoH is evaluated by the Pearson correlation coefficient method. On this basis, the 15 most relevant features are selected by the light gradient boosting machine method as the DSMTNet input. Next, multi-head convolutional neural networks are utilized for encoding the battery features to enhance the final representation learning results. Then, a global attention unit is utilized to model the weights of the encoded feature sequences to extract common information, and a local attention unit is chosen to obtain the differentiated information, which is used as supplementary information. Finally, the accuracy, robustness, and computing time of the DSMTNet method are verified on experimental data. The results prove the superiority of the proposed method compared with other implemented approaches. [Display omitted] •The health features are analyzed and screened by Pearson’s correlation coefficient and lightGBM.•DSMTNet is proposed for SoH online estimation.•The calculating time for DSMTNet is about 0.14 s.•The proposed method has high robustness even if 1/3 of the data segment is available.