Prognostics for State of Health of Lithium-Ion Batteries Based on Gaussian Process Regression

Accurate estimation and prediction of the lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries' performance has important theoretical and practical significance to make better use of lithium-ion battery and to avoid unnecessary losses. State of health (SOH) estimation is used as a qualitative measure of the capability of a lithium-ion battery to store and deliver energy in a system. To evaluate and predict the SOH of batteries, the Gaussian process regression with neural network (GPRNN) as its variance function is proposed. Experimental results confirm that the proposed method can be effectively applied to Li-ion battery monitoring and prognostics by quantitative comparison with basic GPR, combination LGPFR, combination QGPFR, and the multiscale GPR (SMK-GPR, P-MGPR, and SE-MGPR). Thecriteria of RMSE and MAPE of the proposed three models are reduced significantly compared to those of other existing methods.