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Automotive Engineering ›› 2025, Vol. 47 ›› Issue (11): 2150-2158.doi: 10.19562/j.chinasae.qcgc.2025.11.009

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Degradation Trend Prediction of Vehicular PEMFC Based on Dynamic Feature Parameters and Improved GOA-BP Neural Network

Fajun Xue1,2,3,Jibin Yang1,2,3(),Pengyi Deng1,2,3,Xiaohua Wu1,2,3,Li Chen1,2,3,Wenlong Wang1,2,3,Huaixiang Hu1,2,3   

  1. 1.Xihua University,Vehicle Measurement Control and Safety Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province,Chengdu 610039
    2.Xihua University,Provincial Engineering Research Center for New Energy Vehicle Intelligent Control and Simulation Test Technology of Sichuan,Chengdu 610039
    3.Yibin Institute in Xihua University,Yibin 644000
  • Received:2025-03-31 Revised:2025-05-22 Online:2025-11-25 Published:2025-11-28
  • Contact: Jibin Yang E-mail:yangjibin08@163.com

Abstract:

For the problems of insufficient characterization of dynamic operating conditions and the tendency of traditional optimization algorithms to fall into local optima in the prediction of remaining useful life (RUL) for proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC), in this paper a novel prediction method is proposed that combines dynamic feature parameters with an improved grasshopper optimization algorithm (IGOA) and back propagation neural network. Firstly, the seasonal component of voltage data is extracted through seasonal-trend decomposition method, while the power fluctuation rate during operating cycles is quantified. Then, key feature parameters are selected using grey relational analysis. Subsequently, the IGOA is employed to optimize the hyper parameters of the back propagation neural network and construct the IGOA-BP neural network prediction model. Finally, the model performance is validated by real-world vehicle data and laboratory test datasets. The results demonstrate that the proposed method achieves higher prediction accuracy with the mean absolute percentage error below 0.06%, which enables more accurate RUL prediction for PEMFC.

Key words: fuel cells, life prediction, dynamic feature parameters, improved grasshopper optimization algorithm, BP neural network