Noise Annoyance Prediction of Urban Substation Based on Transfer Learning and Convolutional Neural Network

Shengping Fan, Jun Li, Linyong Li and Zhigang Chu
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Shengping Fan: Electric Power Research Institute of Guangdong Power Grid Co., Ltd., Guangzhou 510080, China
Jun Li: College of Mechanical and Vehicle Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, China
Linyong Li: Electric Power Research Institute of Guangdong Power Grid Co., Ltd., Guangzhou 510080, China
Zhigang Chu: College of Mechanical and Vehicle Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, China

Energies, 2022, vol. 15, issue 3, 1-10

Abstract: The noise pollution caused by urban substations is an increasingly serious problem, as is the issue of local residents being disturbed by substation noise. To accurately assess the degree of noise annoyance caused by substations to surrounding residents, we established a noise annoyance prediction model based on transfer learning and a convolution neural network. Using the model, we took the noise spectrum as the input, the subjective evaluation result as the target output, and the AlexNet network model with a modified output layer and corresponding parameters as the pre-training model. In a fixed learning rate and epoch setting, the influence of different mini-batch size values on the prediction accuracy of the model was compared and analyzed. The results showed that when the mini-batch size was set to 4, 8, 16, and 32, all the data sets had convergence after 90 iterations. The root mean square error (RMSE) of all validation sets was lower than 0.355, and the loss of all validation sets was lower than 0.067. As the mini-batch size increased, the RMSE, loss, and mean absolute error (MAE) of the verification set gradually increased, while the number of iterations and the training duration decreased gradually. In this test, a mini-batch size value of four was appropriate. The resultant convolutional neural network model showed high accuracy and robustness, and the error between the prediction result and the subjective evaluation result was between 2% and 7%. The model comprehensively reflects the objective metrics affecting subjective perception, and accurately describes the subjective perception of urban substation noise on human ears.

Keywords: urban substation; noise; annoyance; convolutional neural network; transfer learning (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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