A Novel Stacked Generalization Ensemble-Based Hybrid PSVM-PMLP-MLR Model for Energy Consumption Prediction of Copper Foil Electrolytic Preparation

At present, the energy consuming during the electrolytic copper foil preparation accounts for more than 75% of the total energy consumption. In real-life production, the process parameters are set by the operator empirically and the system may not work at the operating point with minimum energy consumption. Therefore, it is critical to establish an effective model for predicting electrolysis energy consumption to guide the parameters design. In this paper, a novel hybrid model (named PSVM-PMLP-MLR) based on stacked ensemble learning is proposed. The model is divided into two parts: the base-learning model and the meta-learning model. The support vector machine (SVM) model and multilayer perceptron (MLP) model with different input structures are established by the former first. Then the particle swarm algorithm is employed to determine the optimal value of SVM parameters and the optimal weight of MLP by minimizing the mean absolute percentage error (MAPE). The multiple linear regression (MLR) is finally employed as a meta-learning machine to compute the final predictions. Experimental results show that the regression coefficient of this model reached 0.987, and compared with the traditional SVM and MLP models, the accuracy of the model is improved by 10.29% and 8.28%, respectively.