Nonlinear Inversion for Complex Resistivity Method Based on QPSO-BP Algorithm

Abstract

The significant advantage of the complex resistivity method is to reflect the abnormal body through multi-parameters, but its inversion parameters are more than the resistivity tomography method. Therefore, how to effectively invert these spectral parameters has become the focused area of the complex resistivity inversion. An optimized BP neural network (BPNN) approach based on Quantum Particle Swarm Optimization (QPSO) algorithm was presented, which was able to improve global search ability for complex resistivity multi-parameter nonlinear inversion. In the proposed method, the nonlinear weight adjustment strategy and mutation operator were used to enhance the optimization ability of QPSO algorithm. Implementation of proposed QPSO-BPNN was given, the network had 56 hidden neurons in two hidden layers (the first hidden layer has 46 neurons and the second hidden layer has 10 neurons) and it was trained on 48 datasets and tested on another 5 synthetic datasets. The training and test results show that BP neural network optimized by the QPSO algorithm performs better than the BP neural network without initial optimization on the inversion training and test models, and the mean square error distribution is better. At the same time, a double polarized anomalous bodies model was also used to verify the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed method, the inversion results show that the QPSO-BP algorithm inversion clearly characterizes the anomalous boundaries and is closer to the values of the parameters.