Earth pressure prediction in sealed chamber of shield machine based on parallel least squares support vector machine optimized by cooperative particle swarm optimization

Earth pressure in sealed chamber is affected by multisystem and multifield coupling during shield tunneling process, so it is difficult to establish a mechanism earth pressure control model. Therefore, a data-driven modeling method of earth pressure in sealed chamber is proposed, which is based on parallel least squares support vector machine optimized by parallel cooperative particle swarm (parallel cooperative particle swarm optimization-partial least squares support vector machine). The vectors are parallel studied according to different hierarchies firstly, then the initial classifiers are updated by using cross-feedback method to retrain the vectors, and finally the vectors are merged to obtain the support vectors. The parameters of least squares support vector machine are optimized by the parallel cooperative particle swarm optimization, so as to predict quickly for large-scale data. Finally, the simulation experiment is carried out based on in-site measured data, and the results show that the method has high computing efficiency and prediction accuracy. The method has directive significance for engineering application.