Remaining useful life distribution prediction framework for lithium-ion battery fused prior knowledge and monitoring data

Remaining useful life (RUL) prediction is the main approach to guarantee the reliability of lithium-ion batteries. This paper proposes an interpretable hybrid method to predict the RUL distribution with changeable form. The method integrates prior knowledge from the statistical model and regular patterns learned from monitoring data based on the data-driven model. The predicted compound distribution provides more information compared to point estimation and distribution with fixed form. The general hybrid framework contains a component learner, a fusion model with a stacking strategy, and a prognostic distribution algorithm with adaptive sampling weights. The stacking fusion model is implemented by a one-dimensional convolution neural network. The sampling weights are estimated by optimal estimation. The statistical model describes the individual capacity degradation path based on the Wiener process. The data-driven model learns the degradation process from historical data based on convolutional gated recurrent neural network (CNN-GRU) and Monte Carlo dropout simulation. The comparative experiments between the proposed method and existing methods were carried out. The experiment results show that the proposed hybrid method performs well.