State of Health Estimation of Lithium-ion Batteries Based on Relaxation Voltage Reconstruction and AM-LSTM Method

It is essential to accurately estimate the state of health (SOH) for lithium-ion batteries from the perspectives of safety and reliability. However, most existing data-driven methods are based on charging or discharging data, which is relatively difficult to apply. This paper proposes a novel SOH estimation approach based on the relaxation voltage reconstruction and a long short-term memory network with an attention mechanism (AM-LSTM) method. First, based on the relaxation voltage data, a complete relaxation curve is reconstructed with a gated recurrent unit (GRU) neural network. Next, health feature (HF) extraction is carried out on the reconstructed data, and the correlation is analyzed based on Pearson correlation analysis. Then, the SOH estimation is performed based on the AM-LSTM model. Various comparative studies have been conducted to verify the effectiveness of the proposed method by comparing it with relaxation voltage reconstruction and different SOH estimation methods. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method can effectively reconstruct the relaxation voltage and have good accuracy in estimating the SOH with a partial relaxation voltage curve.