arXiv · 2608.20383
Infrared Hotspot-Guided Early Warning of Lithium-Ion Battery Thermal Runaway Under Mechanical Abuse
Abstract
Mechanical abuse can trigger thermal runaway (TR) in lithium-ion batteries through localized heat generation before sensor signals become decisive. This paper proposes a two-stage early-warning approach that estimates localized thermal instability from infrared hotspot dynamics and then fuses this instability score with mechanical, electrical, thermal, and image-intensity features for a 20-frame warning horizon. Evaluation uses repeated experiment-wise three-fold validation, with out-of-fold Stage-I scores during Stage-II training to prevent stacked-model optimism. Hotspot dynamics alone achieve Stage-I ROC-AUC 0.945, and the two-stage classifier reaches Stage-II ROC-AUC 0.908, exceeding direct multimodal fusion while preserving an interpretable intermediate instability signal. Thermal gradient rise precedes voltage-based detection by 40 frames (4 seconds) on average, enabling earlier battery management system intervention. Lead-time analysis at a fixed 0.5 threshold yields a 14.8-frame mean lead time.
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Syed Sajid Ullah, Salman Khan, Muhammad Zunair Zamir. 2026-06-29. Infrared Hotspot-Guided Early Warning of Lithium-Ion Battery Thermal Runaway Under Mechanical Abuse. https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.20383
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