Thermal Runaway Diagnosis of Lithium-Ion Cells Using Data-Driven Method

Abstract

Fault diagnosis is crucial to guarantee safe operation and extend the operating time while preventing the thermal runaway of the lithium-ion battery. This study presents a data-driven thermal runaway diagnosis framework where Bayesian optimization techniques are applied to optimize the hyperparameter of various machine learning techniques. We use different machine learning models such as support vector machine, naive Bayes, decision tree ensemble, and multi-layer perceptron to estimate a high likelihood of causes of thermal runaway by using the experimental measurements of open-source battery failure data. We analyze different evaluation metrics, including the prediction accuracy, confusion metrics, and receiver operating characteristic curves of different models. An experimental evaluation shows that the classification accuracy of the decision tree ensemble outperforms that of other models. Furthermore, the decision tree ensemble provides robust prediction accuracy even with the strictly limited dataset.

Keywords

• lithium-ion battery
• thermal runaway
• data-driven method
• decision tree ensemble