SynForceNet: A Force-Driven Global-Local Latent Representation Framework for Lithium-Ion Battery Fault Diagnosis

TL;DR

This paper introduces SynForceNet, a deep anomaly detection framework combining physical constraints and neural dynamics for improved lithium-ion battery fault diagnosis in electric vehicles, validated on large real-world data.

Contribution

It proposes a novel online fault diagnosis network integrating kernel one-class classification, minimum-volume estimation, and dynamic representations for enhanced fault detection.

Findings

Achieves significant improvements over baseline methods in TPR, PPV, F1 score, and AUC.

Demonstrates the effectiveness of spatial separation analysis of fault representations.

Shows potential shared causal structures across different fault types.

Abstract

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.