Innovation efforts in developing soft computing models (SCMs) of researchers and scholars are significant in recent years, especially for problems in the mining industry. So far, many SCMs have been proposed and applied to practical engineering to predict ground vibration intensity (BIGV) induced by mine blasting with high accuracy and reliability. These models significantly contributed to mitigate the adverse effects of blasting operations in mines. Despite the fact that many SCMs have been introduced with promising results, but ambitious goals of researchers are still novel SCMs with the accuracy improved. They aim to prevent the damages caused by blasting operations to the surrounding environment. This study, therefore, proposed a novel SCM based on a robust meta-heuristic algorithm, namely Hunger Games Search (HGS) and artificial neural network (ANN), abbreviated as HGS–ANN model, for predicting BIGV. Three benchmark models based on three other meta-heuristic algorithms (i.e., particle swarm optimization (PSO), firefly algorithm (FFA), and grasshopper optimization algorithm (GOA)) and ANN, named as PSO–ANN, FFA–ANN, and GOA–ANN, were also examined to have a comprehensive evaluation of the HGS–ANN model. A set of data with 252 blasting operations was collected to evaluate the effects of BIGV through the mentioned models. The data were then preprocessed and normalized before splitting into individual parts for training and validating the models. In the training phase, the HGS algorithm with the optimal parameters was fine-tuned to train the ANN model to optimize the ANN model's weights. Based on the statistical criteria, the HGS–ANN model showed its best performance with an MAE of 1.153, RMSE of 1.761, R2 of 0.922, and MAPE of 0.156, followed by the GOA–ANN, FFA–ANN and PSO–ANN models with the lower performances (i.e., MAE?=?1.186, 1.528, 1.505; RMSE?=?1.772, 2.085, 2.153; R2?=?0.921, 0.899, 0.893; MAPE?=?0.231, 0.215, 0.225, respectively). Based on the outstanding performance, the HGS–ANN model should be applied broadly and across a swath of open-pit mines to predict BIGV, aiming to optimize blast patterns and reduce the environmental effects.
Natural Resources Research - In surface mining, blasting is an indispensable method for fragmenting rock masses. Nevertheless, it can inherently induce many side effects like ground vibrations. At... 相似文献
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