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Abstract—The gradual decreasing capacity of lithium-ion impoverishment [5]. Improvements to particle degeneracy will
batteries can serve as a health indicator to represent the surely contribute to the increase of estimation accuracy.
degradation of lithium-ion battery, and through prediction of
battery capacity, the remaining useful life (RUL) of battery can To solve above two problems, this paper proposes a novel
be estimated. Quite a few effective methods have been developed PF-based method combining Kalman filter (KF) and particle
for predicting the state-of-charge (SOC) and state-of-health swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm to predict the RUL of
(SOH) of lithium-ion batteries, and particle filtering (PF) is one lithium-ion batteries. This proposed approach, on the one hand,
of them. In this paper, a novel PF-based method for RUL optimizes the PF estimation of the state variables by a Kalman
estimation of lithium-ion batteries is developed combining filter, and on the other hand, uses a PSO algorithm to avoid the
Kalman filter and particle swarm optimization (PSO). First, the lack of diversity of the particles. Compared to the standard PF
standard PF is combined with Kalman filter to increase the method and the PSO-based PF(PSOPF) method, the proposed
accuracy of estimation, and then a particle swarm optimization method provides significant performance improvement to
algorithm is integrated to slow down the particle degradation due prediction accuracy for dynamic nonlinear system represented
to particle resampling. The battery dataset provided by NASA is by linear state equations and nonlinear observation equations.
used to verify the proposed approach. RUL prediction results
compared with standard PF and particle swarm optimization-
based PF demonstrates the higher accuracy of our proposed II. THE PROPOSED METHOD
method.
A. Standard Particle Filtering
Keywords-lithium-ion battery, remaining useful life, capacity In statistics, a particle filter is known as a sequential Monte
prediction, Kalman filter, improved particle filter. Carlo method that combines Bayesian learning techniques with
importance sampling [6]. The system state is represented as a
I. INTRODUCTION probability density function that is approximated by a set of
Nowadays, lithium-ion batteries are more and more particles that represent sampled values from an unknown state
commonly used in portable electronics and hybrid electric space.
vehicles [1]. A good understanding of battery health status and The PF method assumes that the state equations can be
an accurate prediction of its remaining useful life (RUL) is of modeled as a first order Markov process with the outputs being
great importance to avoid system break down and reduce conditionally independent. This model can be written as:
economic losses [2].
X n = f ( X n −1 ) + u n
Researchers have developed many distinguished methods to (1)
predict the state-of-charge (SOC) and state-of-health (SOH) of Yn = h( Xn ) + v n
lithium-ion batteries, and some of them are based on particle
filtering (PF), which can solve the uncertainty problem for where X is the state vector, Y is the measurement vector, u
nonlinear non-Gaussian systems. For example, Saha et al.[3] is the progress noise, and v is the measurement noise, n is the
combine the PF with RVM to predict the RUL of lithium-ion time index.
battery, and Qiang et al. [4] uses an unscented PF technique to
predict the RUL of lithiun-ion battery. Sequential importance resampling (SIR) is a widely used
PF algorithm to avoid the degeneracy problem. The filtering
However, there are still some problems for the above PF-
distribution denoted as p ( X n | Y0:n ) is approximated by a set
based methods in RUL prediction. Firstly, when the
i i
observation noise is relatively high, the accuracy of state of N weighted particles {( wn , X n ) : i = 1, ... N } . The importance
estimation by PF will be very much discounted. Secondly, PF i
may confront with the problem of weight degradation which if weights wn are approximations to the relative posterior
solved by resampling method can result unavoidable particle probabilities of the particles such that
N
Secondly, the standard PF has a problem of particle
¦w
i =1
i
n =1 (3)
degeneracy due to the resampling method [7]. After some
iterations, the weights of particles accumulate on a small
fraction of particles. To overcome the impoverishment of PF,
The weight update is given by the PF method is improved based on a Particle Swarm
Optimization (PSO) algorithm [8].
p (Yn | X n ) p ( X n | X n −1 )
wni = wni −1 (4) Unlike independent particles in standard PF algorithms, the
π ( X n | X0:n −1, Y1:n ) particles in this improved PF can cooperate with each other and
evolve according to the cognitive effect and social effect. The
where the importance distribution π ( X n | X0:n −1, Y1:n ) is particles can move in the state space and tend to cluster in
optimal regions. In each iteration, each particle i is updated by
approximated as p ( X n | X n −1 ) . two “best” values, one is its own optimal solution, denoted by
pbesti , another is the optimal value obtained by all particles,
B. Improved Particle Filtering combined with KF and PSO
The general idea of our approach is described as follows. denoted by gbesti . Thus, the moving speed Vni and the
We can define a degradation model for lithium-ion batteries by position Xin of any particle i is updated by
the following state space equations:
will be stopped when the batteries reached the EOL criteria of 1.9
Battery number 07
Battery number 18
30% fade in rated capacity (from 2 Ah to 1.4 Ah). 1.8
Failure threshold
The data set includes the capacity of four batteries, that is,
Capacity炷 Ah)
1.7
batteries number 05, number 06, number 07, and number 18. 1.6
the failure threshold during the known cycles; thus, we reject 1.3
1.1
0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180
B. Lithium-ion battery regression model Cycle
start of prediction
N
Qn + p = ¦ Q i
n+ p (15) Capacity(Ah)
1.7
i =1 130 133
1.6
128 143
Qni + p = ani exp[bni * ( n + p )] + cni exp[ d ni * ( n + p )] + vn (16) 1.5
Failure threshold: 1.4
The estimated probability density function (PDF) of the 1.4
prediction is
1.3
N
p (Qn + p | Q0:n ) ≈ ¦ w δ (Qn + p − Q i
k
i
n+ p ) (17) 1.2
0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180
i =1 Cycle
1 T m
RMSE = ¦
T i =1
( X i − X i )2 (18)
Real data
1.9 PSOPF
To compare the accuracy of the method, we use the
Novel method
estimation error(%) which is defined as 1.8
PF
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TABLE II. THE COMPARISON OF THE PREDICTION ERROR