Comparative Analysis of Battery Cycle Life Early Prediction Using Machine Learning Pipeline

Lithium-Ion battery system is one of the most critical but expensive components for both electric vehicles and stationary energy storage applications. In this regard, accurate and reliable early prediction of battery lifetime is important for optimizing life cycle management of batteries from cradle to grave. In particular, accurate aging diagnostics and prognostics is crucial for ensuring longevity, performance, safety, uptime, productivity, and profitability over a battery's lifetime. However, current state-of-art methods do not provide satisfactory prediction performance (lack of uncertainty quantification) using early degradation data. In the present work, to produce the best model for both battery cycle life point prediction and range prediction (i.e., confidence intervals or prediction intervals), a pipeline-based approach is proposed, in which a full 33-feature set is generated manually based on battery degradation knowledge, and then used to learn the best model among five machine learning (ML) models that have been reported in the battery lifetime prediction literature, and two quantile regression models for battery cycle life prediction. The calibration and sharpness property of battery cycle life range prediction is properly evaluated by their coverage probability and width respectively. The experimental results show that the gradient boosting regression tree model provides the best point prediction performance, while the quantile regression forest model provides the best range prediction performance with both full 33-feature set and the MIT 6-feature set.