Application of Functional Link Artificial Neural Network for Prediction of Machinery Noise in Opencast Mines.pdfVIP

Hindawi Publishing Corporation Advances in Fuzzy Systems Volume 2011, Article ID 831261, 11 pages doi:10.1155/2011/831261 Research Article Application of Functional Link Artificial Neural Network for Prediction of Machinery Noise in Opencast Mines Santosh Kumar Nanda1 and Debi Prasad Tripathy2 1 Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Eastern Academy of Science and Technology, Bhubaneswar, Orissa 754001, India 2 Department of Mining Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, Orissa 769008, India Correspondence should be addressed to Santosh Kumar Nanda, santosh.rsmining@ Received 16 December 2010; Accepted 22 April 2011 Academic Editor: E. E. Kerre Copyright © 2011 S. K. Nanda and D. P. Tripathy. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Functional link-based neural network models were applied to predict opencast mining machineries noise. The paper analyzes the ` prediction capabilities of functional link neural network based noise prediction models vis-a-vis existing statistical models. In order to find the actual noise status in opencast mines, some of the popular noise prediction models, for example, ISO-9613-2, CONCAWE, VDI, and ENM, have been applied in mining and allied industries to predict the machineries noise by considering various attenuation factors. Functional link artificial neural network (FLANN), polynomial perceptron network (PPN), and Legendre neural network (LeNN) were used to predict the machinery noise in opencast mines. The case st