Summary: | Efficient and accurate state of health (SoH) estimation is an important challenge for safe and efficient management of batteries. This paper proposes a fast and efficient online estimation method for lithium-ion batteries based on incremental capacity analysis (ICA), which can estimate SoH through the relationship between SoH and capacity differentiation over voltage (<i>dQ</i>/<i>dV</i>) at different states of charge (SoC). This method estimates SoH using arbitrary <i>dQ</i>/<i>dV</i> over a large range of charging processes, rather than just one or a limited number of incremental capacity peaks, and reduces the SoH estimation time greatly. Specifically, this method establishes a black box model based on fitting curves first, which has a smaller amount of calculation. Then, this paper analyzes the influence of different SoC ranges to obtain reasonable fitting curves. Additionally, the selection of a reasonable <i>dV</i> is taken into account to balance the efficiency and accuracy of the SoH estimation. Finally, experimental results validate the feasibility and accuracy of the method. The SoH estimation error is within 5% and the mean absolute error is 1.08%. The estimation time of this method is less than six minutes. Compared to traditional methods, this method is easier to obtain effective calculation samples and saves computation time.
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