A novel denoising autoencoder hybrid network for remaining useful life estimation of lithium‐ion batteries

Abstract Monitoring the health of lithium batteries is a crucial undertaking in ensuring the safe and dependable functioning of electric vehicles. Data‐driven methods have been proved to be an effective method for identifying the complex degradation process of batteries. To augment the precision of predicting the remaining useful life (RUL), this paper introduces a pioneering architecture for a denoising autoencoder (DAE). This architecture integrates a stacked convolutional neural network with subsequent layers of bidirectional gated recurrent units within an encoder–decoder framework. The utilization of the DAE network is employed as a means to effectively capture and represent the intricate and nonlinear knowledge associated with degradation data acquired from measured sources. Simultaneously, the reconstruction loss is incorporated into the total loss to improve the accuracy and generalization of the prediction model. The efficacy of the proposed approach is substantiated through the utilization of data sets sourced from the NASA Ames Prognostics Data Repository. The comparative findings suggest that the proposed approach demonstrates an exceptional ability to achieve precise and robust estimation in predicting the RUL, surpassing other advanced methodologies.