Cited by 22Advanced Battery Technologies ResearchAdvanced Neural Network ApplicationsIoT and Edge/Fog Computing

Tiny Machine Learning Battery State-of-Charge Estimation Hardware Accelerated

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Pau, Danilo Pietro, Aniballi, Alberto·2024·Applied Sciences

Abstract

Electric mobility is pervasive and strongly affects everyone in everyday life. Motorbikes, bikes, cars, humanoid robots, etc., feature specific battery architectures composed of several lithium nickel oxide cells. Some of them are connected in series and others in parallel within custom architectures. They need to be controlled against over current, temperature, inner pressure and voltage, and their charge/discharge needs to be continuously monitored and balanced among the cells. Such a battery management system exhibits embarrassingly parallel computing, as hundreds of cells offer the opportunity for scalable and decentralized monitoring and control. In recent years, tiny machine learning has emerged as a data-driven black-box approach to address application problems at the edge by using very limited energy, computational and storage resources to achieve under mW power consumption. Examples of tiny devices at the edge include microcontrollers capable of 10–100 s MHz with 100 s KiB to few MB embedded memory. This study addressed battery management systems with a particular focus on state-of-charge prediction. Several machine learning workloads were studied by using IEEE open-source datasets to profile their accuracy. Moreover, their deployability on a range of microcontrollers was studied, and their memory footprints were reported in a very detailed manner. Finally, computational requirements were proposed with respect to the parallel nature of the battery system architecture, suggesting a per cell and per module tiny, decentralized artificial intelligence system architecture.

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Authors
Pau, D. P., & Aniballi, A.
Affiliations
STMicroelectronics (Italy) (IT)
Corresponding author
Pau, Danilo Pietro
Venue
Applied Sciences
Publisher
MDPI AG
Published
2024-07-18
Volume
14
Issue
14
Pages
6240
ISSN
2076-3417 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W4400776280
Cited by
22
References
74
Citations by year
2026: 13 · 2025: 9
FWCI
2.38
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Locations
  • Applied Sciences (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Automotive Engineering › Advanced Battery Technologies Research
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Advanced Neural Network Applications
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Networks and Communications › IoT and Edge/Fog Computing
Keywords
TinyML, state of charge estimation, battery management systems, microcontroller, hardware acceleration, edge computing, memory usage, decentralized AI, electric mobility, parallel computing

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