Application of dynamic event-triggered hybrid gravitational search algorithm in pipeline leakage detection

Abstract

In this paper, a hybrid gravitational search algorithm (GSA) based on the dynamic event-triggered mechanism, which is called DHGSA, is proposed to alleviate the slow exploitation problem of the GSA that may result in premature convergence and falling into local optimization. First, the DHGSA is divided into the exploration stage and the exploitation stage through the introduction of the population diversity. Then, the memory and social information exchange abilities of the particle swarm optimization algorithm are added in the DHGSA’s exploration stage, which can accelerate the convergence speed of the GSA. Next, the dynamic event-triggered mechanism (DETM) is added in the exploitation stage of the DHGSA, and a “celestial banishment strategy” is proposed, which improves the exploitation ability of the GSA and makes it have the ability to avoid falling into local optimal value. The derived results indicate that, compared with several other well-known search algorithms, the DHGSA has better performance on convergence speed, optimization accuracy and stability. Finally, the DHGSA is employed to optimize the parameters of the variational mode decomposition (VMD) algorithm for the oil and gas pipeline signal decomposition. The signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of the three types of pipeline signals after denoising reaches 8.8406 dB, 9.0869 dB and 5.6880 dB, respectively. It is proved that the leakage signals can be denoised effectively in the research of the oil and gas pipeline signal processing.