A multi-scale lithium-ion battery capacity prediction using mixture of experts and patch-based MLP

Lithium-ion battery health management has become increasingly important as the application of batteries expands. Precise forecasting of capacity degradation is critical for ensuring the healthy usage of batteries. In this paper, we innovatively propose MSPMLP, a multi-scale capacity prediction model utilizing the mixture of experts (MoE) architecture and patch-based multi-layer perceptron (MLP) blocks, to capture both the long-term degradation trend and local capacity regeneration phenomena. Specifically, we utilize patch-based MLP blocks with varying patch sizes to extract multi-scale features from the capacity sequence. Leveraging the MoE architecture, the model adaptively integrates the extracted features, thereby enhancing its capacity and expressiveness. Finally, the future battery capacity is predicted based on the integrated features, achieving high prediction accuracy and generalization. Experimental results on the public NASA dataset indicate that MSPMLP achieves a mean absolute error (MAE) of 0.0078, improving by 41.8% compared to existing methods. These findings highlight that MSPMLP, owing to its multi-scale modeling capability and generalizability, provides a promising solution to the battery capacity prediction challenges caused by capacity regeneration phenomena and complex usage conditions. The code of this work is provided at https://github.com/LeiYuzhu/CapacityPredict.