A new hybrid model based on secondary decomposition, reinforcement learning and SRU network for wind turbine gearbox oil temperature forecasting

Oil temperature forecasting technology can realize real-time detection of the gearbox status of wind turbines. To make the oil temperature forecasting more accurate, a new hybrid model is presented in this study. The main modeling process of the presented method consists of three main steps. In step I, the proposed secondary decomposition method is utilized to preprocess the raw oil temperature data. In step II, the feature selection algorithm based on reinforcement learning selects the features of each sub-series. In step III, the simple recurrent unit network establishes forecasting models for each sub-series after feature selection and obtains the final forecasting results. By analyzing the forecasting results of multiple experiments, it can be concluded that: (1) the presented hybrid model can obtain satisfying forecasting results. Its RMSE values are 0.1101 degrees C, 0.1683 degrees C, and 0.1784 degrees C in three cases. (2) The presented hybrid model can get higher forecasting accuracy than the seventeen alternative models and six existing models in all cases. It improves the performance of traditional neural networks by over 90 percent.