Terminal voltage prediction of Li-Ion batteries using Combined Neural Network and Teaching Learning Based Optimization algorithm

The static and dynamic model parameters are critical parameters for the accurate estimation of open-circuit voltage and the terminal voltage of a Lithium-Ion (Li-Ion) battery. This work mainly focuses on the investigation of an accurate method for predicting the open-circuit voltage and terminal voltage of Li-Ion batteries. This work proposes an Enhanced Neural Network and Teaching Learning-Based Optimization (ENN-TLBO) algorithm to predict the terminal voltage of a Li-Ion battery used in electric vehicle applications. In this work, the static model is obtained by using a neural network (NN) while the dynamic model parameters are predicted by using the Teaching Learning Based Optimization technique (TLBO). In the NN method, different network parameters are varied to predict the accurate State of Charge (SoC)-Open Circuit Voltage (OCV) relation of the battery. The proposed static models are validated by the performance metrics such as RMSE and R2, the best static model is identified by low Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) and high R2 value of the model. In recent times many optimization algorithms are reported in the literature to predict the dynamic model, which requires certain algorithm-specific tuning parameters that affects the performance of the algorithm. The proposed TLBO algorithm is implemented with lesser tuning parameters to predict the hysteresis constant of the dynamic model. The RMSE value of the predicted terminal voltage at different temperature profiles is calculated to validate the proposed method. The proposed method has several advantages such as fewer tuning parameters, simple to implement, and high accuracy.