Supersonic inlet flow recognition by hybrid-mutation non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm with support vector machines

The recognition of supersonic inlet flow pattern has become a research hotspot in recent years. In this paper, the dual external pressure supersonic inlet is taken as the research object. To explore the flow characteristics of the inlet, time-mean processing on the inlet pressure signal collected by sensors is conducted first, and the features of the inlet pressure data in time domain and frequency domain are extracted, respectively. As feature selection (FS) plays an important role in classification tasks and has been recently studied as a multi-objective optimization problem, two objectives of FS are considered and an improved non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm NSGA2 with hybrid mutation operators using support vector machines (SVM) as classifiers is proposed, aiming to simultaneously select feature subsets and optimize SVMs hyper-parameters. In addition, a way to deal with variation transgression is proposed to make the mutation operator of the single-objective evolution fit well in the multi-objective evolution algorithm. Experimental results on 31 sensor datasets demonstrate that our proposed algorithm can achieve competitive classification accuracy while obtaining a smaller size of feature subset compared with particle swarm optimization algorithm and some multi-objective optimization algorithms using single-objective evolution mutation operators.