Interpretable Ensemble Learning to Predict Remaining Useful Life of Li- Ion Battery Using LIME and SHAP
摘要
Effective and accurate estimation of the Remaining Useful Life of lithium-ion battery management systems is critical for its liability, safety and optimisation of cost ranging from electric vehicles to grid-scale energy storage. A variety of electrochemical and physics-based models offer valuable perspectives but these models very often fail to retain various attributes such as ability to scale, to compute and to modify to suit different operating and environmental conditions. In this work, we perform a comparative study of four supervised machine learning algorithms viz., Random Forest, Gradient Boosting, XGBoost and Multi-Layer Perceptron for estimation of remaining useful life on the basis of structured cycle-level sensor data. All the machine learning algorithms are implemented as regressor. Our results indicated that Random Forest Regressor provides the best result with mean squared error as 120.45 and R² score as 0.92. It also indicates that this model is the best suited to capture complex nonlinear degradation. In safety-critical areas, the need to enhance model interpretability led to the application of post-hoc Explainable AI (XAI) methods LIME and SHAP, which provided local and global feature attribution explainability, respectively. Results of our analysis show that discharge time and maximum discharge voltage are the most critical predictors and proportionally explain electrochemical theory is the main basis of battery degradation. The explainable machine learning approach ensures that model transparency complements predictive accuracy, therefore supporting responsible safety-critical applications.