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enhance their product offerings to capture larger customer base. For instance, in
April 2019, Advanced Charging Technologies (ACT) launched first, an industrial
battery room management system. It utilizes the Best-One-First-Out (BOFO) algo-
rithm, which selects the best battery to use based on temperature, cool downtime, and SOC at end of the charge cycle. Some of the major players in the global AI in battery management market include Robert Bosch GmbH, ION Energy Pvt. Ltd., Advanced Charging Technologies (ACT), Texas Instruments Incorporated, Moixa Energy Holdings Ltd., Voltaiq, Nuvation Energy, Headsun Technology Co. Ltd., Energsoft Inc., and Schneider Electric SE.
1.3 Advantages of using AI for battery management
LIBs are one of the most influential technologies in modern society, enabling the widespread emergence of portable electronic devices and triggering the growth of the EV market [52]. Since Sony successfully commercialized the first LIBs in 1991, their energy density has increased by more than 200%. Although lithium batteries
have been significantly improved, their large-scale deployment in EVs or stationary
applications requires them to be further optimized in terms of performance, dura-
bility, safety, cost, etc., to improve their reusability and recyclability sex. This is a
current requirement for LIBs and any next-generation batteries under development
or production, as battery R&D is a complex multivariate problem with very different characteristics such as performance, life cycle analysis, safety, cost, environmental impact, and resource issues [53]. In addition, the overall circular economy of bat-
teries should ultimately include the process from mining, production, and assembly, through the lengthy use phase, and finally, reuse and recycling.
However, the current research pipeline relies heavily on forwarding trial-and-
error approaches and is primarily material-centric: synthesizing materials, fab-
ricating electrolytes and electrodes, assembling batteries, and finally evaluating performance. Even considering only these aspects, there are thousands of possibili-
ties for synthesizing active substances and preparing electrolytes, an almost infinite number of possibilities for choosing electrode fabrication parameters, and dozens of possible battery forms, which are far beyond what the human brain can hold, the range that can be handled. This makes designing tools difficult. Therefore, to improve the efficiency of battery research, many new tools have been developed to meet this requirement [54]. Among them, AI is a promising method that promises to help people overcome dealing with large quantities of variables and large amounts of data.
AI, and ML in particular, is the promise to lead in overcoming the major limita-
tions of battery optimization. The most widely adopted approach to making machines do so is through algorithm architectures known as ML, which are the ones employed nowadays in battery R&D. These algorithms have tremendous capabilities to assess multidimensional data sets (i.e., data sets containing multiple variables), discover patterns in data, and unlock applications that are difficult to exploit by using other approaches. This is of high relevance for the fields of battery material discoveries