Intelligent Positioning Approach for High Speed Trains Based on Ant Colony Optimization and Machine Learning Algorithms

For high-speed train (HST), high-precision of train positioning is important to guarantee train safety and operational efficiency. For improving train positioning accuracy, we develop a mathematical positioning model by analyzing the wireless position report created by HST. To begin with, k-means algorithm is integrated with the least square support vector machine (LSSVM) to differentiate the position data and establish the corresponding prediction model for each position data class. Then, the ant colony optimization (ACO) algorithm is introduced to adaptively optimize the clustering number of position data and solve the over-fitting problem of the single k-means algorithm. So, a better classification of position data can be obtained by ACO-k-means than the single k-means algorithm. Furthermore, the online learning algorithms are designed for improving the adaptability and real-time performance of established positioning model. Finally, the field data of Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway (BS_HSR) is used to test the performance of the established positioning models. Experiments on real-world positioning data sets from BS_HSR illustrate that the proposed methods can enhance the real-time performance in online updating process on the premise of reducing the positioning error.