Title
Short-term wind power prediction based on improved small-world neural network
Abstract
In a competitive electricity market, wind power prediction is important for market participants. However, the prediction has not a general solution due to its inherent uncertainty, intermittency, and multi-fractal nature. This paper firstly constructs a small-world BP neural network (SWBP) with weight convergence and statistics analysis in order to build a maximum approximation for its nonlinear computation. Then, a modified mutual information (MI) is presented to select the input features for the SWBP, whose selection criteria is to establish the relationship between the numerous candidate features of the input and output associated with the wind power prediction by eliminating the redundant. Thirdly, the improved SWBP based on the modified MI is compared with the BP network upon the 15-min-ahead wind power prediction for performance testing, which includes convergence, training time, and forecast accuracy. Moreover, mean value method is adopted to smooth the volatility of selected input. At last, illustrative examples based on the 4-h-ahead rolling prediction are given to demonstrate its stability, validity, and accuracy of the proposed methodology contrasted with the BP, PSOBP, and RBF neural network algorithms.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1007/s00521-017-3262-7
Neural Computing and Applications
Keywords
Field
DocType
Small-world BP neural network (SWBP), Weight convergence, Mutual information (MI), BP neural network, Mean value method, Wind power prediction
Convergence (routing),Electricity market,Mathematical optimization,Nonlinear system,Intermittency,Input/output,Mutual information,Artificial neural network,Wind power,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
31.0
7
1433-3058
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.41
5
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Shuangxin Wang162.30
Meng Li242.48
Long Zhao37813.96
Chen Jin430.41