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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Electron.

Sec. Power Electronics

Volume 6 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/felec.2025.1654344

A Hybrid LSTM-Transformer Model for Accurate Remaining Useful Life Prediction of Lithium-Ion Batteries

Provisionally accepted
Tianren  ZhaoTianren Zhao1Yanhui  ZHANGYanhui ZHANG1*Minghao  WangMinghao Wang2Wei  FengWei Feng1Shengxian  CaoShengxian Cao3Gong  WangGong Wang3
  • 1Shenzhen institutes of Advanced Technology,Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, China
  • 2University of Macau, Taipa, Macao, SAR China
  • 3Northeast Electric Power University, Jilin, China

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With the widespread application of lithium-ion batteries in electric vehicles and energy storage systems, health monitoring and remaining useful life prediction have become critical components of battery management systems. To address the challenges posed by the high nonlinearity and long-term dependency in battery degradation modeling, this paper proposes a deep hybrid architecture that integrates Long Short-Term Memory networks with Transformer mechanisms, aiming to improve the accuracy and robustness of RUL prediction. Firstly, time-series samples are constructed from raw battery data, and physically consistent temperature-derived features-including average temperature, temperature range, and temperature fluctuation-are engineered. Data preprocessing is performed using standardization and Yeo-Johnson transformation. The model employs LSTM modules to capture local temporal patterns, while the Transformer modules extract global dependencies through multi-head self-attention mechanisms. These complementary features are fused to enable joint modeling of battery health states. The regression task is optimized using the Mean Squared Error loss function and trained with the Adam optimizer. Experimental results on the MIT battery dataset demonstrate the proposed model achieves excellent performance in a 7-step multi-point prediction task, with a Root Mean Square Error of 0.0085, Mean Absolute Percentage Error of 0.0200, and a coefficient of determination of 0.9902. Compared with alternative models such as MC-LSTM and XGBoost-LSTM, the proposed model exhibits superior accuracy and stability. Residual analysis and visualization further confirm the model's unbiased and stable predictive capability. This study shows that the LSTM-Transformer hybrid architecture offers significant potential in modeling complex battery degradation processes and enhancing RUL prediction accuracy, providing effective technical support for the development of intelligent battery health management systems.

Keywords: lithium-ion battery, Remaining useful life, LSTM, transformer, Time-series prediction

Received: 26 Jun 2025; Accepted: 04 Aug 2025.

Copyright: © 2025 Zhao, ZHANG, Wang, Feng, Cao and Wang. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

* Correspondence: Yanhui ZHANG, Shenzhen institutes of Advanced Technology,Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, China

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