Solar Radiation Time-Series Prediction Based on Empirical Mode Decomposition and Artificial Neural Networks

Abstract Precise time series prediction serves as an important role in constructing a digital twin (DT). The various internal and external interferences result in highly nonlinear and stochastic time series. Although artificial neural networks (ANNs) are often used to forecast time series because of their strong self-learning and nonlinear fitting capabilities, it is a challenging and time-consuming task to obtain the optimal ANN architecture. This paper proposes a hybrid time series prediction model based on an ensemble empirical mode decomposition (EEMD), long short-term memory (LSTM) neural networks, and Bayesian optimization (BO). To improve the predictability of stochastic and nonstationary time series, the EEMD method is implemented to decompose the original time series into several components (each component is a single-frequency and stationary signal) and a residual signal. The decomposed signals are used to train the neural networks, in which the hyperparameters are fine-tuned by the BO algorithm. The following time series data are predicted by summating all the predictions of the decomposed signals based on the trained neural networks. To evaluate the performance of the proposed EEMD-BO-LSTM neural networks, this paper conducts two case studies (the wind speed prediction and the wave height prediction) and implements a comprehensive comparison between the proposed method and other approaches including the persistence model, autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) model, LSTM neural networks, BO-LSTM neural networks, and EEMD-LSTM neural networks. The results show an improved prediction accuracy using the proposed method by multiple accuracy metrics.

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A Hybrid Wind Speed Prediction Approach Based on Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition and BO-LSTM Neural Networks for Digital Twin

ASME 2020 Power Conference ◽

10.1115/power2020-16500 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Weifei Hu ◽

Yihan He ◽

Zhenyu Liu ◽

Jianrong Tan ◽

Ming Yang ◽

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Keyword(s):

Neural Networks ◽

Time Series ◽

Wind Speed ◽

Empirical Mode Decomposition ◽

Time Series Data ◽

Time Series Prediction ◽

Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition ◽

Series Data ◽

Digital Twin ◽

Mode Decomposition

Abstract Precise time series prediction serves as an important role in constructing a Digital Twin (DT). The various internal and external interferences result in highly non-linear and stochastic time series data sampled from real situations. Although artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) are often used to forecast time series for their strong self-learning and nonlinear fitting capabilities, it is a challenging and time-consuming task to obtain the optimal ANN architecture. This paper proposes a hybrid time series prediction model based on ensemble empirical mode decomposition (EEMD), long short-term memory (LSTM) neural networks, and Bayesian optimization (BO). To improve the predictability of stochastic and nonstationary time series, the EEMD method is implemented to decompose the original time series into several components, each of which is composed of single-frequency and stationary signal, and a residual signal. The decomposed signals are used to train the BO-LSTM neural networks, in which the hyper-parameters of the LSTM neural networks are fine-tuned by the BO algorithm. The following time series data are predicted by summating all the predictions of the decomposed signals based on the trained neural networks. To evaluate the performance of the proposed hybrid method (EEMD-BO-LSTM), this paper conducts a case study of wind speed time series prediction and has a comprehensive comparison between the proposed method and other approaches including the persistence model, ARIMA, LSTM neural networks, B0-LSTM neural networks, and EEMD-LSTM neural networks. Results show an improved prediction accuracy using the EEMD-BO-LSTM method by multiple accuracy metrics.

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