基于SOM-RBF神经网络的COD软测量方法

污水处理是一个复杂的非线性过程，化学需氧量（chemical oxygen demand，COD）是评价污水处理效果的关键指标之一。COD的传统测量方法耗时长、成本高，基于传统神经网络的软测量方法提高了COD参数的测量速度但精度较差。针对这些问题，设计一种结合自组织特征映射 (self-organizing map, SOM)和径向基函数(radial basis function, RBF)神经网络的COD参数软测量方法。该方法利用SOM网络聚类数据样本，根据所得聚类结果确定RBF网络的隐层节点数及节点的数据中心，综合提高RBF网络的收敛速度和拟合精度。利用污水处理厂部分水样数据建立COD软测量模型，模型仿真和硬件在线测试结果表明，相对于传统的BP、RBF等网络，基于SOM-RBF神经网络的COD软测量方法测量时间短、预测精度较高，具有较为广阔的应用前景。

On soft sensor of chemical oxygen demand by SOM-RBF neural network

Sewage treatment is a complex nonlinear process, and chemical oxygen demand (COD) is one of the key indicators for evaluating the effectiveness of wastewater treatment. It is costly and time-consuming to get COD by traditional chemical approaches. By neural networks, it is faster, but it is not accurate enough. To address them, a soft sensor approach, which is based on the combination of self-organizing map (SOM) and radial basis function (RBF) neural network, is designed. SOM is taken to cluster data samples. The number of hidden layer nodes and the center vector of the nodes are determined by clustering results. By such disposal, the rate of convergence and fitting precision have been improved. Part data of water samples from a sewage treatment plant are taken to establish the soft sensor model of COD. Test results provided by numerical model and hardware show that, compared with the traditional BP, RBF and other networks, the soft sensor model of COD designed in this paper has short measurement time and relatively high prediction accuracy. It may be a promising soft sensor approach in applications.