A transformer-enhanced framework for lithium-ion battery capacity estimation using limited imaginary impedance feature

Journal Article (2025)
Author(s)

R. Liu (TU Delft - DC systems, Energy conversion & Storage)

Dayu Zhang (Beijing Institute of Technology)

Lu Wang (Hitachi Energy Sweden AB - Research Center)

Chunting Chris Mi (San Diego State University)

P. Bauera (TU Delft - DC systems, Energy conversion & Storage)

Zian Qin (TU Delft - DC systems, Energy conversion & Storage)

Research Group
DC systems, Energy conversion & Storage
DOI related publication
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.est.2025.116313
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Publication Year
2025
Language
English
Research Group
DC systems, Energy conversion & Storage
Volume number
122
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Abstract

Accurate battery capacity estimation is essential for the effective and reliable operation of lithium-ion battery management systems. Battery impedance is a key parameter that encapsulates electrochemical information, closely correlating with the internal states of batteries. This study proposes a novel capacity estimation framework that effectively balances accuracy, efficiency, and practicality. Firstly, a novel feature extraction method is introduced to extract health features from the imaginary impedance at a single frequency. The extracted feature demonstrates a strong and stable correlation with battery degradation under various operation conditions, while significantly reducing data requirements. To address the impact of diverse degradation patterns on estimation accuracy, an initial adjustment method is applied to precisely retrace the relative degradation paths of batteries. The results show that the mean absolute percentage error of battery capacity estimation decreases from 15.65% to 2.87%. Additionally, a transformer-based capacity estimation model is developed, which integrates a feature fusion unit to explicitly eliminate the influence of temperature on model performance. As a result, the model's accuracy improves by over 28% under various thermal conditions.