Various abusive behaviors and working conditions can lead to battery faults or thermal runaway, posing significant challenges to the safety, durability, and reliability of electric vehicles.
Various abusive behaviors and working conditions can lead to battery faults or thermal runaway, posing significant challenges to the safety, durability, and reliability of electric vehicles. This paper investigates battery faults categorized into mechanical, electrical, thermal, inconsistency, and aging faults.
What is a battery fault?
Battery faults represent a broad spectrum of issues that can occur in a battery system, significantly impacting its performance, safety, and longevity. These anomalies, often complex and multifaceted, range from minor deviations in battery operation to severe incidents, leading to catastrophic damage and failure.
Therefore, effective abnormality detection, timely fault diagnosis, and maintenance of LIBs are key to ensuring safe, efficient, and long-life system operation [14, 15]. Battery fault diagnosis can assess battery state of health based on measurable external characteristics, such as voltage and current [16, 17].
How are battery faults diagnosed?
They analyze the mechanisms of battery faults, classifying them into mechanical, electrical, thermal, inconsistency, and aging faults, and use model-based, data-driven, and knowledge-based methods for fault diagnosis. Battery faults are primarily indicated by changes in voltage, current, temperature, SOC, and structural deformation stress.
How to diagnose battery system fault in real-vehicle operation conditions?
In battery system fault diagnosis, finding a suitable extraction method of fault feature parameters is the basis for battery system fault diagnosis in real-vehicle operation conditions. At present, model-based fault diagnosis methods are still the hot spot of research.
Among battery thermal faults, the most common fault is excessive temperature, which can cause significant damage to the battery unit and the entire system. Thermal faults in battery systems, their consequences, and suggested remedies are outlined in Table 4.