Reinforcement learning for continued learning of optimal battery charging

Abstract

Methods and systems of optimizing battery charging are disclosed. Battery state sensors are used to determine anode overpotential of a battery multiple times during multiple charge cycles. In a first phase, a reinforcement learning model (e.g., actor-critic model) is trained with rewards given throughout each charge cycle of the battery to optimize training. The reinforcement learning model can determine state-of-health characteristics of the battery over the charge cycles, and in a second phase, the reinforcement learning model is augmented accordingly. During this augmentation, the reinforcement learning model is trained with rewards given on a charge cycle-by-cycle basis, wherein rewards are given after looking at the charging optimization after the conclusion of each charge cycle. Commands are given to charge an on-field battery based on the augmented reinforcement learning model, associated state-of-health characteristics of the on-field battery are determined, and the reinforcement learning model is further augmented accordingly.