A co-estimation framework of state of health and remaining useful life for lithium-ion batteries using the semi-supervised learning algorithm

To ensure the safe operation of lithium-ion batteries, it is crucial to accurately predict their state of health (SOH) and remaining useful life (RUL). Addressing the issue of high costs and time consumption due to the reliance on large amounts of labeled data in existing models, this paper proposes a co-estimation framework that combines semi-supervised learning (SSL) with long short-term memory networks (LSTM), effectively utilizing unlabeled data. By selecting the most strongly correlated battery health features and constructing a degradation model using a hybrid dataset, the need for labeling is reduced. The verification results indicate SOH estimated error is reduced to 4 % and the maximum root mean square error (RMSE) is 1.58 %. When utilizing 75 % SOH as the end-of-life criterion for battery cycle life, the mean absolute error (MAE) of the RUL predictions for the two tested batteries are 2.5281 and 0.0562 cycles, respectively. The results prove the framework enables accurate prediction and has wide practicability and universal applicability.