Soft-Sensing Method with Online Correction Based on Semi-Supervised Learning

Soft sensing has been widely used in chemical industry to build an online monitor of the variables which are unmeasurable online or measurable online but with a high cost. One inherent difficulty is insufficiency of the training samples because the labeled data are limited. Besides, the traditional soft-sensing structure has no online correction mechanism. The forecasting result may be incorrect if the working condition is changed. In this work, a semi-supervised learning(SSL) method is proposed to build the soft-sensing model by use of the unlabeled data. Meanwhile, an online correction mechanism is proposed to establish a soft-sensing approach. The mechanism estimates the input variables at each step by a prediction model and calibrates the output variables by a compensation model. The experimental results show that the proposed method has better prediction accuracy and generalization ability than other approaches.     

A Short-Term Traffic Flow Forecasting Method and Its Applications

Short-term forecast of urban traffic flow is very important to intelligent transportation. Although the conventional methods have some advantages, to some extent, in improving the traffic forecast’s precision, it is still hard to achieve high accuracy. In this paper, we propose a short-term traffic flow forecasting method, which is based on the hybrid particle swarm optimization-neural network(HPSO-NN) with error compensation mechanism.In HPSO-NN, the hybrid PSO algorithm is employed to train the structures and parameters of the feed-forward advanced neural network, while the error compensation mechanism is employed to improve the accuracy. HPSONN is used to forecast the vehicle velocity in Shanghai North-South Viaduct. Experimental results show that the HPSO-NN, compared with the auto-regressive and moving average(ARMA) model, can forecast traffic flow with a higher accuracy. What’s more, we have also found that HPSO-NN with error compensation mechanism has better performance than that of HPSO-NN alone.