Soft Sensor Model Based on IBA-LSSVM for Photosynthetic Bacteria Fermentation Process

It is difficult to measure the key biological process variables of photosynthetic bacteria fermentation in real-time, and offline measurement has a large time lag and cannot meet the needs of real-time optimization control. In this paper, a soft sensor model based on least square support vector machine with an improved bat algorithm (IBA-LSSVM) was proposed. The velocity equation of the bat algorithm (BA) was improved and the random variation operation in differential evolution algorithm was introduced into BA algorithm. Thus, the diversity of the population can be increased, and the global and local searching ability of the BA algorithm can be enhanced. Furthermore, the IBA-LSSVM soft sensor model was established for the living cell concentration and compared with BA-LSSVM soft sensor model. Finally, the simulation results show that the improved model was the better learning ability and prediction performance than BA-LSSVM, the measurement error is 0.1358. The improved model could provide accurate guidance for the photosynthetic bacteria fermentation control optimization. This model has certain practical value.