State-of-Charge Estimation of Lithium-Ion Batteries Based on the CNN-Bi-LSTM-AM Model Under Low- Temperature Environments
Abstract
1. Introduction
- A hybrid deep learning architecture specifically tailored for low-temperature challenges is proposed. It synergistically integrates a 1D-CNN for extracting robust local features from noisy voltage and current sequences, Bi-LSTM for capturing complex bidirectional temporal dependencies, and an AM for dynamically weighting critical time steps [27], thereby enhancing model focus and suppressing interference from distorted signal segments.
- A systematic and focused evaluation under persistent low-temperature conditions is conducted. Unlike studies that primarily test at room or broad temperature ranges, this work rigorously validates the proposed model across three specific low-temperature setpoints using standard driving cycles, explicitly demonstrating its robustness against temperature-induced nonlinearities and performance degradation.
- Better estimation accuracy and comparative advantage are demonstrated. The model outperforms established benchmarks and other recent methods, confirming its effectiveness and advancement for low-temperature battery SOC estimation.
2. CNN-Bi-LSTM-AM Model Design
2.1. Convolutional Neural Network
2.2. Bi-LSTM Network
2.3. Attention Mechanism
2.4. CNN-Bi-LSTM-AM Network
3. Dataset Construction and Processing
3.1. Dataset Construction
3.2. Dataset Processing
3.2.1. Data Normalization
3.2.2. Error Evaluation Index
4. Example Results and Analysis
4.1. Simulation Environment
4.2. Battery SOC Estimation
4.3. Analysis of Results
5. Conclusions and Future Work
5.1. Conclusions
5.2. Future Work
- The logical next step is to transition from simulation to embedded deployment. Future work will focus on porting and optimizing the trained model for execution on embedded BMS hardware.
- To fully assess the model’s generalizability, evaluation under a complete spectrum of real-world operating conditions is essential.
- Exploring lightweight and efficient data preprocessing techniques will be considered.
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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| Item | Specification |
|---|---|
| Cell Type | 18650 Cylindrical |
| Chemistry | Panasonic NMC/Graphite |
| Nominal Capacity | 2.9 Ah |
| Nominal Voltage | 3.6 V |
| Voltage Range | 2.5–4.2 V |
| Total Number of Cells | 1 |
| Operating Temperature | −20–60 °C |
| Test Temperatures | −20 °C, −10 °C, 0 °C |
| Data Source | Public dataset provided by the University of Wisconsin–Madison [33] |
| Hyperparameters | Value |
|---|---|
| Number of CNN filters | 64 |
| Number of hidden layer neurons | 64 |
| Excitation | ReLU, Sigmoid |
| Data sampling interval | 0.1 s |
| Optimizer | Adam |
| Initial learning rate | 0.001 |
| Mini-batch size | 64 |
| Max epochs | 700 |
| Loss function | MSE |
| Reference | Method | Temperature (°C) | Performance |
|---|---|---|---|
| [6] | OCV-PE | −20, −10, 0 | MAE = 4.1–4.9% RMSE = 2.32–3.31% |
| [10] | FFRLS-AEKF | 0 | MAE = 0.91% RMSE = 1.52% |
| [11] | OCV-DAKEF | −10, 0 | RMSE = 0.65–0.86% |
| [17] | Autoregressive GPR | 0 | RMSE = 1.91–2.99% |
| [19] | EI-LSTM-CO | 0 | RMSE = 1.3–1.5% |
| [23] | Bi-LSTM encoder-decoder | −20, −10, 0 | MAE = 1.26–2.32% |
| Our Study | CNN-Bi-LSTM-AM | −20, −10, 0 | MAE = 0.17–0.77% RMSE = 0.33–0.94% |
| Performance | Mamba | KAN | CNN-LSTM | CNN-Bi-LSTM | Proposed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Estimation Time (ms) | 0.36 | 0.49 | 0.31 | 0.49 | 0.40 |
| Params (M) | 2.64 | 1.47 | 0.78 | 0.83 | 1.54 |
| Model Size (MB) | 10.56 | 5.88 | 2.49 | 2.66 | 4.70 |
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Li, R.; Hao, Y.; Zhang, M.; Lv, Y. State-of-Charge Estimation of Lithium-Ion Batteries Based on the CNN-Bi-LSTM-AM Model Under Low- Temperature Environments. Sensors 2026, 26, 264. https://doi.org/10.3390/s26010264
Li R, Hao Y, Zhang M, Lv Y. State-of-Charge Estimation of Lithium-Ion Batteries Based on the CNN-Bi-LSTM-AM Model Under Low- Temperature Environments. Sensors. 2026; 26(1):264. https://doi.org/10.3390/s26010264
Chicago/Turabian StyleLi, Ran, Yiming Hao, Mingze Zhang, and Yanling Lv. 2026. "State-of-Charge Estimation of Lithium-Ion Batteries Based on the CNN-Bi-LSTM-AM Model Under Low- Temperature Environments" Sensors 26, no. 1: 264. https://doi.org/10.3390/s26010264
APA StyleLi, R., Hao, Y., Zhang, M., & Lv, Y. (2026). State-of-Charge Estimation of Lithium-Ion Batteries Based on the CNN-Bi-LSTM-AM Model Under Low- Temperature Environments. Sensors, 26(1), 264. https://doi.org/10.3390/s26010264

