Data-Adaptive Censoring for Short-Term Wind Speed Predictors Based on MLP, RNN, and SVM

Abstract

This study introduces novel short-term wind speed predictors based on multilayer perceptron (MLP), recurrent neural network (RNN), and support vector machine (SVM) by combining them with the data-adaptive censoring (DAC) strategy. Taking into account the multistep ahead prediction mode, we design a DAC strategy based on the least mean square (LMS) algorithm, which iteratively obtains a new training dataset consisting of the most informative input–output wind data from all training set for MLP, RNN, and SVM structures. This enables us to censor less informative training data with high accuracy and thereby the training costs of the MLP, RNN, and SVM are reduced without a considerably adverse effect on their prediction performances in testing processes. The conducted simulation results on real-life large-scale short-term wind speed data verify the mentioned attractive features of the proposed predictors.