Randomized Battery Usage 7: Low-Temperature Left-Skewed Random Walk

Reference charging and discharging cycles are also performed after a fixed interval of randomized usage to provide reference benchmarks for battery state of health. In this dataset, four 18650 Li-ion batteries (Identified as RW13, RW14, RW15 and RW16) were continuously operated by repeatedly charging them to 4.2V and then discharging them to 3.2V using a randomized sequence of discharging currents between 0.5A and 5A.

This type of discharging profile is referred to here as random walk (RW) discharging. A customized probability distribution is used in this experiment to select a new load setpoint every 1 minute during RW discharging operation. The custom probability distribution was designed to be skewed towards selecting lower currents.