Owing to the general disadvantages of traditional neural networks in gas concentration
inversion, such as slow training speed, sensitive learning rate
selection, unstable solutions, weak generalization ability, and an
ability to easily fall into local minimum points, the extreme learning
machine (ELM) was applied to sulfur hexafluoride (
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) concentration inversion research. To
solve the problems of high dimensionality, collinearity, and noise of
the spectral data input to the ELM network, a genetic algorithm was
used to obtain fewer but critical spectral data. This was used as an
input variable to achieve a genetic algorithm joint extreme learning
machine (GA-ELM) whose performance was compared with the genetic
algorithm joint backpropagation (GA-BP) neural network algorithm to
verify its effectiveness. The experiment used 60 groups of
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gas samples with different
concentrations, made via a self-developed Fourier transform infrared
spectroscopy instrument. The
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gas samples were placed in an open
optical path to obtain infrared interference signals, and then
spectral restoration was performed. Fifty groups were randomly
selected as training samples, and 10 groups were used as test samples.
The BP neural network and ELM algorithms were used to invert the
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gas concentration of the mixed
absorbance spectrum, and the results of the two algorithms were
compared. The sample mean square error decreased from 248.6917 to
63.0359; the coefficient of determination increased from 0.9941 to
0.9984; and the single running time decreased from 0.0773 to 0.0042 s.
Comparing the optimized GA-ELM algorithm with traditional algorithms
such as ELM and partial least squares, the GA-ELM algorithm had higher
prediction accuracy and operating efficiency and better stability and
generalization performance in the quantitative analysis of small
samples of gas under complex noise backgrounds.
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