Short-term wind speed prediction based on fractal dimension-variational mode decomposition and general continued fraction

Accurate wind speed prediction is significant to maintain the stable power system operation and enhance wind power utilization efficiency. However, most of wind speed prediction models cannot well fit the variation pattern of wind series due to its random and chaotic characteristics. This study proposes a novel wind speed prediction model incorporating fractal dimension (FD) and variational mode decomposition (VMD) and general continued fraction (GCF). More specifically, the fractal feature of wind speed series is analyzed, and the parameter determination strategy for VMD based on fractal feature of wind series is developed to overcome the problem of ambiguous mode parameter K for VMD, so that the relatively regular modes can be extracted from the raw wind series. To well capture the variation characteristics of wind series, a novel GCF model is derived on the basis of the inverse difference quotient theory, and the structure parameters of GCF model are determined by the bats algorithm (BA). To verify the accuracy and stability of the proposed model, several experiments involving comparisons with some mainstream models are executed on five wind speed datasets, and the proposed model outperforms comparative models with mean absolute percentage error reduction of 0.48 %-74.44 %. The results of the experiments indicate the proposed model has great capacity of capturing the variation characteristics of wind speed series.