Prognostics by generalists: large language models for lithium-ion batteries health forecasting
摘要
Prognostics of the health degradation of lithium-ion batteries plays a crucial role in the electrification of transportation systems. Data-driven approaches have been widely adopted for battery health forecasting, but the need for labeled data and the domain-specific nature of the prediction model limit the deployment of these approaches in real-world applications. In this study, we unlock the potential of large language models as a generalized approach for lithium-ion battery state-of-health forecasting. We demonstrate the feasibility of applying large language models in a few-shot and zero-shot learning setups, where the model is capable of forecasting the battery health degradation given proper guided prompts without the need for fine-tuning. Extensive experiments are conducted to evaluate the prediction performance with various usage setups considered. The results indicate that both few-shot and zero-shot learning setups yield satisfactory performance with the lowest root-mean-square error of