Systems Engineering and Electronics ›› 2022, Vol. 44 ›› Issue (7): 2211-2218.doi: 10.12305/j.issn.1001-506X.2022.07.17

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Feature selection for welding defect assessment based on improved NSGA3

Bo LI1,2,*, Jiahao ZHOU1,2, Minmin LIU1,2, Pinchao ZHU3   

  1. 1. School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, China
    2. Aircraft Swarm Intelligent Sensing and Cooperative Control Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Chengdu 611731, China
    3. Sichuan BMT Welding Equipment and Engineering Company Limited, Chengdu 610052, China
  • Received:2022-01-17 Online:2022-06-22 Published:2022-06-28
  • Contact: Bo LI

Abstract:

Feature selection plays an important role in welding defect assessment based on multi-source information fusion because of improved detection accuracy and speed. The multi-source feature set consists of arc voltage features and arc sound features and is characterized by the presence of redundant and complementary features in the feature set. Therefore, this paper proposes a multi-objective feature selection method based on the improved non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm-Ⅲ (NSGA3), aiming to find the optimal feature subset in a multi-source feature set. Firstly, the method analyses the feature set for correlation, redundancy, and complementary characteristics, and then builds a multi-objective feature selection optimization model with the objective of minimizing redundancy and maximizing correlation and complementarity. Then a new mutation operator is proposed to guide the mutation process based on redundancy and complementary evaluation functions to reduce the influence of invalid features and improve convergence efficiency. Support vector machine is used as learners to verify the learning effect in the experiments. The results show that the proposed method can achieve better performance in terms of feature subset dimension and prediction accuracy compared with the other three methods.

Key words: improved non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm-Ⅲ (NSGA3), redundancy, complementarity, feature selection, mutation operator

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