A Fault Diagnosis Method for Electric Vehicle Lithium Power Batteries Based on Dual-Feature Extraction From the Time and Frequency Domains

Abstract This study focuses on the safety and reliability issues of lithium-ion batteries, proposing a fault diagnosis strategy that leverages dual-feature extraction from both the time and frequency domains. Additionally, by modifying the traditional autoencoder, the study proposes a feature-guided autoencoder as an unsupervised model for extracting features in the time domain. Initially, wavelet packet decomposition and its energy-denoising treatment are employed to refine fault information within battery voltage signals. Subsequently, the reconstruction error outputted by the Feature-Guided Autoencoder is utilized as the time-domain fault feature, while the cosine similarity of the energy of signals in various frequency bands obtained after wavelet packet decomposition serves as the frequency-domain fault feature. Ultimately, this article selects the Isolation Forest algorithm for two-dimensional outlier detection of time and frequency features. Experimental results demonstrate that the feature-guided autoencoder proposed in this study not only enhances the sensitivity of time-domain fault features compared to traditional autoencoders and their variants but also optimizes issues related to training time and computational load. The effectiveness of the proposed dual-feature fault diagnosis method in both the time and frequency domains is validated through data from two actual vehicles, showing superior early fault detection capability relative to single-feature fault diagnosis methods.