Establishing a Genetic Algorithm-Back Propagation model to predict the pressure of girdles and to determine the model function

Abstract

A Genetic Algorithm-Back Propagation (GA-BP) neural network method has been proposed to predict the clothing pressure of girdles in different postures. Firstly, a Back Propagation (BP) neural network model was used to predict the clothing pressure based on seven parameters, and three optimal functions of the model were derived. However, the prediction error 0.85411 of the network was more than the forecast requirement of 0.5 and the optimal initial weights and thresholds for the network could not be calculated. Therefore, a GA model and the BP neural network model were combined into a new GA-BP neural network model, which was used to predict the clothing pressure based on the three optimal functions. The results showed that the prediction error for this GA-BP neural network model was 0.41652, which was less than the forecast requirement of 0.5. Hence, the model was shown to predict the girdle pressure with acceptable accuracy. Finally, the internal calculation function equation for the GA-BP neural network was derived.