Voltage-temperature health feature extraction to improve prognostics and health management of lithium-ion batteries

Prognostics and health management (PHM) of lithium-ion batteries are important to ensure the safety of electric vehicles. To date, there has not been an adequate method to accurately estimate battery health conditions and predict battery lifetime under fast charging. A voltage-temperature health feature extraction method is proposed to improve PHM of lithium-ion batteries in this paper. Since voltage change can reflect battery degradation process, a difference model is firstly proposed to extract voltage-dependent health features from partial voltage profiles, which does not need to fully discharge a battery. Simultaneously, as battery aging is affected by temperature, battery surface temperature is selected as a thermal-dependent health feature. Subsequently, the extracted voltage-temperature health features are fed into a developed battery degradation model. Using the proposed method, state of health and remaining useful life (RUL) of lithium-ion batteries can be estimated and predicted with uncertainty measurements. Battery degradation data collected from accelerated battery tests under two different charging policies are utilized to validate the accuracy of the proposed method. Results show that root mean square error (RMSE) is smaller than 1% in all capacity estimation and relative RMSE is around 5% for RUL prediction, which provide higher accuracies than the existing methods. •A voltage-temperature health feature extraction method for batteries is proposed.•A difference model is proposed to extract voltage-dependent health features.•Thermal-dependent factor is considered for battery prognostics.•SoH and RUL are estimated and predicted combining voltage and thermal influences.•Two series of batteries are used to validate the accuracy of the proposed method.