The invention relates to the technical field of
wind power prediction, and discloses a
wind power short-term prediction method. The method uses
wind speed as an input, adopts a regression model of a least square
support vector machine to predict output power of a
wind power plant, and parameters of the regression model of the least square
support vector machine are optimized by adoption of a
chaotic particle swarm algorithm. The wind power short-term prediction method provided by the invention introduces
chaotic motion characteristics into an iterative process, uses
ergodicity of
chaotic motion to improve a global searching capability of the
algorithm in a searching process, overcomes the defects that the
particle swarm algorithm is easy to fall into a local extreme point and is slow in convergence and low in precision in a later period of evolution, effectively solves the problem of prematurity of the
particle swarm algorithm, can ensure
global optimum, and achieves a better prediction effect; the method uses the least square
support vector machine to predict, avoids the problem of solving quadratic
programming, converts the prediction problem to a process of solving a linear equation set, and the solving process is greatly simplified; and the method adopts single
wind speed as input data, and thus a prediction model is simpler.