A Novel Voltage-Abnormal Cell Detection Method for Lithium-Ion Battery Mass Production Based on Data-Driven Model with Multi-Source Time Series Data

Before leaving the factory, lithium-ion battery (LIB) cells are screened to exclude voltage-abnormal cells, which can increase the fault rate, troubleshooting difficulty, and degrade pack performance. However, the time interval to obtain the detection results through the existing voltage-abnormal cell method is too long, which can seriously affect production efficiency and delay shipment, especially in the mass production of LIBs when facing a large number of time-critical orders. In this paper, we propose a data-driven voltage-abnormal cell detection method, using a fast model with simple architecture, which can detect voltage-abnormal cells based on the multi-source time series data of the LIB without a time interval. Firstly, our method transforms the different source data of a cell into a multi-source time series data representation and utilizes a recurrent-based data embedding to model the relation within it. Then, a simplified MobileNet is used to extract hidden feature from the embedded data. Finally, we detect the voltage-abnormal cells according to the hidden feature with a cell classification head. The experiment results show that the accuracy and average running time of our model on the voltage-abnormal cell detection task is 95.42% and 0.0509 ms per sample, which is a considerable improvement over existing methods.