An Inter Type-2 FCR Algorithm Based T–S Fuzzy Model for Short-Term Wind Power Interval Prediction

Due to the intermittent and random nature of wind energy, wind power interval prediction (WPIP) is important to weaken the uncertainty and support the planning and scheduling of the power system. To improve the quality of WPIP, a novel fuzzy interval prediction model (FIPM) based on the lower upper bound estimation method is proposed in this paper. In the frame of the FIPM, a novel inter type-2 (IT-2) fuzzy model is designed to construct the lower and upper bounds of the prediction interval (PI), in which an IT-2 fuzzy c-regression algorithm is used to partition the data space and identify the fuzzy model. The gravitational search algorithm is employed to optimize the FIPM by minimizing coverage width-based criterion to reach a tradeoff between the interval width and coverage probability. In order to verify the effectiveness of the proposed method, existing interval prediction approaches are adopted in comparative experiments with 17 datasets extracted from five wind fields. The experimental results show that the proposed IT-2 FIPM achieves significant performance with huge promotion in the quality of the PI compared to the traditional forecasting models.