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Main Authors: Qiu, Yuan, Li, Wei, Zhang, Wei, Zhou, Yi, Liu, Fang, Wang, Jianbiao, Seh, Zhi Wei
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Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.01229
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author Qiu, Yuan
Li, Wei
Zhang, Wei
Zhou, Yi
Liu, Fang
Wang, Jianbiao
Seh, Zhi Wei
author_facet Qiu, Yuan
Li, Wei
Zhang, Wei
Zhou, Yi
Liu, Fang
Wang, Jianbiao
Seh, Zhi Wei
contents State of health (SoH) is widely used for battery management, but it is a single scalar and offers limited interpretability. Two batteries with similar SoH can exhibit very different degradation behaviors and the lack of interpretability hinders optimal battery operation. In this paper, we propose IBAM for interpretable battery aging modelling with a neural-assisted physics-based framework. IBAM outputs a 2-D aging fingerprint without extra diagnostic tests and uses only routine logs from the battery management system. The fingerprint offers great interpretability by capturing a battery's curve-wide polarization voltage loss and the tail loss near the end-of-discharge. IBAM first creates a physics-based battery model based on a fractional-order equivalent circuit model, and then extracts per-cycle fingerprints from the model using a two-stage least-squares method. IBAM further anchors fingerprints on the SoH axis with physics-guided regression, where the per-cycle SoH is estimated via a bidirectional gated recurrent unit with customized multi-channel voltage features. Across batteries with short-, medium-, and long-lifespans, IBAM consistently yields the best physics model fidelity at different aging stages, and provides clear interpretations of degradation mechanisms and fingerprint patterns about batteries of different lifespans. The resulting fingerprints support interpretable battery health assessment and can inform battery control choices.
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spellingShingle Interpretable Battery Aging without Extra Tests via Neural-Assisted Physics-based Modelling
Qiu, Yuan
Li, Wei
Zhang, Wei
Zhou, Yi
Liu, Fang
Wang, Jianbiao
Seh, Zhi Wei
Signal Processing
Machine Learning
State of health (SoH) is widely used for battery management, but it is a single scalar and offers limited interpretability. Two batteries with similar SoH can exhibit very different degradation behaviors and the lack of interpretability hinders optimal battery operation. In this paper, we propose IBAM for interpretable battery aging modelling with a neural-assisted physics-based framework. IBAM outputs a 2-D aging fingerprint without extra diagnostic tests and uses only routine logs from the battery management system. The fingerprint offers great interpretability by capturing a battery's curve-wide polarization voltage loss and the tail loss near the end-of-discharge. IBAM first creates a physics-based battery model based on a fractional-order equivalent circuit model, and then extracts per-cycle fingerprints from the model using a two-stage least-squares method. IBAM further anchors fingerprints on the SoH axis with physics-guided regression, where the per-cycle SoH is estimated via a bidirectional gated recurrent unit with customized multi-channel voltage features. Across batteries with short-, medium-, and long-lifespans, IBAM consistently yields the best physics model fidelity at different aging stages, and provides clear interpretations of degradation mechanisms and fingerprint patterns about batteries of different lifespans. The resulting fingerprints support interpretable battery health assessment and can inform battery control choices.
title Interpretable Battery Aging without Extra Tests via Neural-Assisted Physics-based Modelling
topic Signal Processing
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.01229