An evolutionary stacked generalization model based on deep learning and improved grasshopper optimization algorithm for predicting the remaining useful life of PEMFC

Accurate prediction of the future degradation trend (FDT) and remaining useful life (RUL) of proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) is crucial in the prognosis and health management (PHM) of PEMFC. Therefore, this study develops a stacked generalization model (SGM) to predict the FDT and RUL of the PEMFC. Firstly, maximum information coefficient (MIC) and Akaike information criterion (AIC) are used to select input variables to obtain key information and reduce the difficulty of model training. Then use improved grasshopper optimization algorithm (GOA) to optimize the hyperparameters of the SGM to further improve the prediction performance of the model. Finally, according to the dataset after feature selection, improved GOA (IGOA) optimized SGM (M/AIC-IGOA-SGM) is established to predict FDT and RUL. Among them, IGOA is obtained by introducing Chebyshev chaotic mapping initialization, chaotic decreasing factor, and a spiral position update mechanism to GOA. The base models of SGM are support vector regression (SVR) and gated recurrent unit (GRU), and the meta-model is regularized extreme learning machine (RELM). In the comparative experiments under two different current conditions, the superiority of the proposed model is verified, and the effectiveness of M/AIC, IGOA, and SGM is discussed.