A Data-Model Interactive Remaining Useful Life Prediction Approach of Lithium-Ion Batteries Based on PF-BiGRU-TSAM

Accurate remaining useful life (RUL) prediction of lithium-ion batteries is critical for energy supply systems. In conventional data-driven RUL prediction approaches, the battery's degradation mechanism is difficult into incorporate in the RUL prediction. Furthermore, there are notable limitations in reflecting the significance of different time instances, and the uncertainty in the degradation process. Consequently, a novel data-model interactive RUL prediction approach based on particle filter-temporal attention mechanism-bidirectional gated recurrent unit (PF-BiGRU-TSAM) is proposed. Specifically, BiGRU-TSAM is trained offline through historical data, which assigns corresponding significance to battery capacities at different time instances. Moreover, regarding the interactive data-model for the online prediction phase based on PF-BiGRU-TSAM, the advantages of data-driven and model-based approaches are integrated, which accomplishes the purpose of modifying each other. The proposed PF-BiGRU-TSAM approach is validated with a real-world battery dataset. Experimental results demonstrate the proposed approach is better than some published approaches. Taking the 50th operational cycle of the four batteries B0005, B0006, B0007, and B0018 in the dataset as an instance, the absolute errors of the proposed PF-BiGRU-TSAM are 0, 1, 3, 3, respectively, which represents the proposed approach has an excellent performance.