SynForceNet: A Force-Driven Global-Local Latent Representation Framework for Lithium-Ion Battery Fault Diagnosis
This work addresses safety-critical fault diagnosis for electric vehicle batteries, representing an incremental advance with domain-specific impact.
The paper tackles online fault diagnosis for lithium-ion batteries in electric vehicles by developing a deep anomaly detection framework that integrates kernel one-class classification and minimum-volume estimation, achieving average improvements of 7.59% in TPR, 27.92% in PPV, 18.28% in F1 score, and 23.68% in AUC over baselines.
Online safety fault diagnosis is essential for lithium-ion batteries in electric vehicles(EVs), particularly under complex and rare safety-critical conditions in real-world operation. In this work, we develop an online battery fault diagnosis network based on a deep anomaly detection framework combining kernel one-class classification and minimum-volume estimation. Mechanical constraints and spike-timing-dependent plasticity(STDP)-based dynamic representations are introduced to improve complex fault characterization and enable a more compact normal-state boundary. The proposed method is validated using 8.6 million valid data points collected from 20 EVs. Compared with several advanced baseline methods, it achieves average improvements of 7.59% in TPR, 27.92% in PPV, 18.28% in F1 score, and 23.68% in AUC. In addition, we analyze the spatial separation of fault representations before and after modeling, and further enhance framework robustness by learning the manifold structure in the latent space. The results also suggest the possible presence of shared causal structures across different fault types, highlighting the promise of integrating deep learning with physical constraints and neural dynamics for battery safety diagnosis.