Particle swarm optimization-least squares support vector regression based forecasting model on dissolved gases in oil-filled power transformers

This paper presents a forecasting model based upon least squares support vector machine (LS-SVM) regression and particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm on dissolved gases in oil-filled power transformers. First, the LS-SVM regression model, with radial basis function (RBF) kernel, is established to facilitate the forecasting model. Then a global optimizer, PSO is employed to optimize the hyper-parameters needed in LS-SVM regression. Afterward, a procedure is put forward to serve as an effective tool for forecasting of gas contents in transformer oil. The application of the proposed model on actual transformer gas data has given promising results. Moreover, four other forecasting models, derived from back propagation neural network (BPNN), radial basis function neural network (RBFNN), generalized regression neural network (GRNN) and support vector regression (SVR), are selected for comparisons. The experimental results further demonstrate that the proposed model achieves better forecasting performance than its counterparts under the circumstances of limited samples. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.