State of Health Estimation for Sustainable Electric Vehicle Batteries Using Temporal-Enhanced Self-Attention Graph Neural Networks

Electric vehicles (EVs) have emerged as an environmentally friendly alternative to conventional fuel vehicles. Lithium-ion batteries are the major energy source for EVs, but they degrade under dynamic operating conditions. Accurate estimation of battery state of health (SOH) is important for sustainability as it quantifies battery condition, influences reuse possibilities, and helps alleviate capacity degradation, which finally impacts battery lifespan and energy efficiency. In this paper, a self-attention graph neural network combined with long short-term memory (LSTM) is introduced by focusing on using temporal and spatial dependencies in battery data. The LSTM layer utilizes a sliding window to extract temporal dependencies in the battery health factors. Two different approaches to the graph construction layer are subsequently developed: health factor-based and window-based graph. Each approach emphasizes the interconnections between individual health factors and exploits temporal features in a deeper way, respectively. The self-attention mechanism is used to compute the adjacent weight matrix, which measures the strength of interactions between nodes in the graph. The impact of the two graph structures on the model performance is discussed. The model accuracy and computational cost of the proposed model are compared with the individual LSTM and GRU models.