Abstract
The lithium-ion battery state of health (SOH) estimation is an essential parameter to ensure the safety and stability of the life cycle of electric vehicles. Accurate SOH estimation has been an industry puzzle and a hot topic in academia. To solve the problem of low fitting accuracy of lithium-ion battery SOH estimation in a traditional neural network, a nonlinear autoregressive with exogenous input (NARX) neural network is proposed based on the charging stage. Firstly, six health factors related to the lithium-ion battery aging state are acquired at the charging stage because the charging process has better applicability and simplicity than the discharging process in actual operation. Then six health factors are pre-processed using the principal component analysis (PCA) method. The principal component of the input variable is selected as the input of the neural network, which reduces the dimension of input compared with the neural network model without principal component analysis. The correlation between the inputs is eliminated. To verify the rationality of the proposed algorithm, two public aging datasets are used to develop and validate it. Moreover, the proposed PCA-NARX method is compared with the other two neural networks. The simulation results show that the proposed method can achieve accurate SOH estimation for different types of lithium-ion batteries under different conditions. The average mean absolute error (MAE) and root mean square error (RMSE) are 0.68% and 0.94%, respectively. Compared with other neural networks, the prediction error is reduced by more than 50% on average, which demonstrates the effectiveness of the proposed SOH estimation method.