Soft sensor of melt index based on sparse least square support vector machine

Melt index is one of the most important quality variables to determine product specifications in the polymer processing, which cannot be real-time measured by ordinary method. In order to estimate the melt index, a soft sensor method using sparse least square support vector machine based on genetic algorithm is proposed. In the proposed method, genetic algorithm is used to realize the sparseness of least square support vector machine and the optimization of its parameters. Simulation results of industrial data show that the proposed method can reduce the model scale which has better generalization capability than that of the non-sparse model.