A new approach for fire and non-fire aerosols discrimination based on multilayer perceptron trained by modified bonobo optimizer

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Fire smoke detection plays a pivotal role in our life. For the optical fire smoke detector, it is easy to produce false alarms due to the misidentification of non-fire aerosols, such as dust and water mist. In this research, four multilayer perceptron (MLP) models are established and applied to discriminate the fire smokes and non-fire aerosols. A new hybrid algorithm (HBOBES) is proposed to optimize the parameters of MLP, which incorporates three search phases, including space selecting, promiscuous and restrictive mating, and consortship and extra-group mating, which are derived from the basic bonobo optimizer (BO) and bald eagle search algorithm (BES). Moreover, a adaptive tent chaos mapping technique is introduced into the first two phases to increase the population diversity. In the experiments, eight standard classification datasets and sixteen self-established aerosol classification datasets are applied to evaluate HBOBES’s optimization performance on training the MLP models. The results show that the proposed HBOBES ranks first overall, showing the merits in training MLP models compared to eight other algorithms. For the aerosol classification problem, it is found that both the optimized 3-7-2 and 3-7-3 MLP models have achieved the highest classification accuracy of approximately 95%. Black smokes can be identified with 100% classification accuracy. Therefore, this paper provides an effective and feasible approach to distinguish fire and non-fire aerosols by using the MLP classifier optimized by optimization algorithm, which has practical significance for the development of intelligent optical smoke detector.