Your electric car doesn’t use AI for battery charging yet. But that could change
Ever wondered how electric vehicles know how much charge is left in their battery? The state of charge, which tells you how charged the car is, relies on complicated calculations of current or voltage, sometimes adjusted for temperature. If it’s too low, the vehicle might shut down unexpectedly. If it’s too high, the battery could overcharge, leading to overheating and in rare cases, fire. This risk is why the EV battery industry hasn’t actively adopted artificial intelligence yet despite the potential of increased efficiency. You have problems with proving causality and uh and liability uh with an AI component because it’s black box. You can’t look inside and say what went wrong. So what in if an AI component fails, it’s usually something to do with either the hardware or the training data. Experts say integrating AI into the battery estimation system could make EVs go farther and last longer. If you can use the sensors, one uh temperature sensor, one voltage sensor, and one uh current sensor directly into an AI, uh that AI is more competent to estimate the charge and will um adapt more quickly to to new releases of of uh battery packs and stuff like that because the old way is very cumbersome and and slow. So there are benefits for AI, but it’s also a task where mistakes can literally ignite into serious trouble. Skull loon’s team intentionally fed the AI faulty data to see how it acted and so that the output was way off. It’s important to do this kind of test because uh we we proved that it was really not that robust. As a solution, the team suggests a system that keeps AI in check and shuts it down when it acts out, which they call a safety cage. This isn’t the only way to bring AI into EV batteries, but researchers say this is one of the most realistic solutions.
Your electric car doesn’t use AI for battery charging yet. But that could change
Integrating AI into the battery estimation system could help make electric cars more efficient, but mistakes could literally ignite into serious trouble.
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