Aiming at researching on health monitoring of composite materials, a static load position identification method for optical-fiber composite structures based on the Particle Swarm Optimization-Back Propagation (PSO-BP) neural network algorithm is proposed. Based on the 2 × 2 optical fibers-composite structures, the PSO-BP algorithm is used to establish a nonlinear mapping between the fiber output intensity and the position. At first, a three-layer BP neural network is established. The number of the hidden layer is 30. And then the PSO algorithm is used to optimize the initial weights and thresholds of the BP neural network. Finally, a BP neural network is built using optimized initial weights and thresholds. A total of 515 sets of data samples are collected by the experimental system, of which 500 sets are used for training and 15 sets are used for the final model prediction. Simulation results show that the Mean Square Error (MSE) of the static load position prediction based on the PSO-BP algorithm is 0.0485. Compared with the position prediction model established by the BP neural network, Radial Basis Function (RBF) neural network and Support Vector Regression Machine (SVRM), the PSO-BP neural network model has a higher accuracy. The proposed method has an important application value for the research of health self-diagnosis of composite structures.
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.