Since the pulverizing capability is unable to be measured directly and there exist numerous strongly-coupling variables in a ball mill pulverizing system
a variable selection method based on extreme ant colony optimization(EACO)for pulverizing capability model is proposed. According to the selected variables
the model is established by support vector regression. On the basis of the positive feedback mechanism of ant colony optimization(ACO)
the proposed method is able to identify the relative importance of variables selected by ants
and then mutate unimportant variables following the power law distribution
thus the poor solutions in each iteration process get improved. Consequently
the ants are led to search for the optimal solutions. The proposed algorithm is compared with ACO and ant colony optimization with genetic algorithm on the field data of ball mill pulverizing system. The experiment results show the higher convergence rate and prediction accuracy.
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