A multi-dimensional machine learning framework for accurate and efficient battery state of charge estimation

Accurate state of charge (SOC) estimation is essential for battery safe and efficient utilization. As artificial intelligence technologies evolve, data-driven methods have become mainstream for estimating SOC. However, the technique can significantly deteriorate model performance when encountering poor or insufficient data quality. In this paper, we apply median filtering to eliminate extreme noise and utilize continuous wavelet transform to extract time-frequency features from voltage signals. Additionally, we generate novel features via feature crossing. We then apply dimensionality reduction via the random forest method to decrease computational expense. Finally, we select a convolutional neural network (CNN) as the base model to learn optimized features for more precise SOC estimation. To confirm the efficacy of our proposed method, this study compares it with CNN, long short-term memory (LSTM), bidirectional LSTM (BILSTM), and a CNN-BILSTM model combined with an attention mechanism. These comparisons are conducted under different temperatures and operating conditions. The results indicate that this method achieves a mean absolute error and a root mean square error of less than 2.89 % and 3.71 %, respectively, in SOC estimation, demonstrating superior accuracy compared to other models. This study underscores the significance of feature engineering techniques in SOC estimation.