Locally recurrent neural networks for long-term wind speed and power prediction

  • Authors:
  • T. G. Barbounis;J. B. Theocharis

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Division of Electronics and Computer Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki 54124, Greece;Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Division of Electronics and Computer Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki 54124, Greece

  • Venue:
  • Neurocomputing
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

The paper deals with a real-world application, the long-term wind speed and power forecasting in a wind farm using locally recurrent multilayer networks as forecast models. To cope with the complexity of the process and to improve the performance of the models, a class of optimal on-line learning algorithms is employed for training the locally recurrent networks based on the recursive prediction error (RPE) algorithm. A global RPE algorithm is devised and three local learning algorithms are suggested by partitioning the GRPE into a set of sub-problems at the neuron level to reduce computational complexity and storage requirements. Experimental results on the wind prediction problem demonstrate that the proposed algorithms exhibit enhanced performance, in terms of convergence speed and the accuracy of the attained solutions, compared to conventional gradient-based methods. Furthermore, it is shown that the suggested recurrent forecast models outperform the atmospheric and time-series models.