Prediction of Blasting Fragmentation Based on GWO-ELM

Abstract

Aiming at the complex nonlinear relationship among factors affecting blasting fragmentation, the input weight and hidden layer threshold of ELM (extreme learning machine) were optimized by gray wolf optimizer (GWO) and the prediction model of GWO-ELM blasting fragmentation was established. Taking No. 2 open-pit coal mine of Dananhu as an example, seven factors including the rock tensile strength, compressive strength, hole spacing, row spacing, minimum resistance line, super depth, and specific charge are selected as the input factors of the prediction model. The average size of blasting fragmentation X50 is selected as the output factor of the prediction model and compared with the results of PSO-ELM and ELM. The results show that MAPE of GWO-ELM, PSO-ELM, and ELM are 1.78%, 5.40%, and 10.90%, respectively; their RMSE are 0.007, 0.022, and 0.045, respectively. The ELM model optimized by the gray wolf optimizer is more accurate and has stronger data fitting ability than PSO-ELM and ELM models, and the prediction accuracy of GWO-ELM is much higher than that of PSO-ELM and ELM.