Nonlinear correction of photoelectric displacement sensor based on least square support vector machine

A model of correcting the nonlinear error of photoelectric displacement sensor was established based on the least square support vector machine. The parameters of the correcting nonlinear model, such as penalty factor and kernel parameter, were optimized by chaos genetic algorithm. And the nonlinear correction of photoelectric displacement sensor based on least square support vector machine was applied. The application results reveal that error of photoelectric displacement sensor is less than 1.5%, which is rather satisfactory for nonlinear correction of photoelectric displacement sensor.