Remaining Useful Life Estimation of Lithium-Ion Batteries Using Alpha Evolutionary Algorithm-Optimized Deep Learning

The precise prediction of the remaining useful life (RUL) of lithium-ion batteries is of great significance for improving energy management efficiency and extending battery lifespan, and it is widely applied in the fields of new energy and electric vehicles. However, accurate RUL prediction still faces significant challenges. Although various methods based on deep learning have been proposed, the performance of their neural networks is strongly correlated with the hyperparameters. To overcome this limitation, this study proposes an innovative approach that combines the Alpha evolutionary (AE) algorithm with a deep learning model. Specifically, this hybrid deep learning architecture consists of convolutional neural network (CNN), time convolutional network (TCN), bidirectional long short-term memory (BiLSTM) and multi-scale attention mechanism, which extracts the spatial features, long-term temporal dependencies, and key degradation information of battery data, respectively. To optimize the model performance, the AE algorithm is introduced to automatically optimize the hyperparameters of the hybrid model, including the number and size of convolutional kernels in CNN, the dilation rate in TCN, the number of units in BiLSTM, and the parameters of the fusion layer in the attention mechanism. Experimental results demonstrate that our method significantly enhances prediction accuracy and model robustness compared to conventional deep learning techniques. This approach not only improves the accuracy and robustness of battery RUL prediction but also provides new ideas for solving the parameter tuning problem of neural networks.