Gaussian Process Regression for In Situ Capacity Estimation of Lithium-Ion Batteries

Accurate on-board capacity estimation is of critical importance in lithium-ion battery applications. Battery charging/discharging often occurs under a constant current load, and hence voltage versus time measurements under this condition may be accessible in practice. This paper presents a data-driven diagnostic technique, Gaussian process regression for in situ capacity estimation (GP-ICE), which estimates battery capacity using voltage measurements over short periods of galvanostatic operation. Unlike previous works, GP-ICE does not rely on interpreting the voltage-time data as incremental capacity (IC) or differential voltage (DV) curves. This overcomes the need to differentiate the voltage-time data (a process that amplifies measurement noise), and the requirement that the range of voltage measurements encompasses the peaks in the IC/DV curves. GP-ICE is applied to two datasets, consisting of 8 and 20 cells, respectively. In each case, within certain voltage ranges, as little as 10 s of galvanostatic operation enables capacity estimates with approximately 2%-3% root-mean-squared error (RMSE).