Football team training algorithm: A novel sport-inspired meta-heuristic optimization algorithm for global optimization

A more efficient optimization algorithm has always been the pursuit of researchers, but the performance of the current optimization algorithm in some complex test functions is not always satisfactory. In order to solve this problem, a new meta-heuristic optimization algorithm—Football Team Training Algorithm (FTTA) is proposed according to the training method of the football team, which simulates the three stages of the training session: Collective Training, Group Training and Individual Extra Training. By the test on two groups of test functions, CEC2005 and CEC2020, the proposed optimization algorithm (FTTA) achieves the best results, which far exceeds the traditional Grey Wolf Optimization (GWO), Whale Optimization Algorithm (WOA) algorithms and so on. In the engineering application, a new hybrid wind speed prediction system is proposed based on FTTA. The FTTA is used to optimize variational mode decomposition (VMD) to improve the effect of data denoising. At the same time, based on unconstrained weighting algorithm, FTTA and combination prediction model build a new hybrid prediction strategy. Through the experiments on four groups of wind speed data in Dalian, the accuracy, stability, advancement, and CPU running speed of the system are verified. It is obvious that the practical application ability of the system is much better than previous methods, which can effectively improve the utilization efficiency of renewable energy.