State-of-health estimation of lithium-ion batteries using a novel dual-stage attention mechanism based recurrent neural network

Accurate estimation of the state of health (SOH) of lithium-ion batteries is an important guarantee to ensure safe and reliable operation of lithium-ion battery systems. However, the complex aging mechanism inside the battery makes it difficult to measure the battery SOH directly. In this paper, a SOH estimation method based on a novel dual-stage attention-based recurrent neural network (DARNN) and health feature (HF) extraction from time varying charging process is proposed. Firstly, the constant current charging time, the maximum temperature time, the isochronous voltage difference, and the isochronous current were extracted as lithium-ion battery HFs, and their correlations with SOH are verified by spearman correlation coefficient. Secondly, the DARNN is proposed to capture the time-dependent and temporal features of the input sequence and to accurately predict SOH. Finally, the proposed estimation method is validated on the NASA battery dataset. The results show that the method can accurately estimate SOH for lithium-ion batteries. The mean square error and the mean absolute percentage error of the method are <0.5 %.