In industrial field applications, laser ultrasonic echo signals are easily submerged by ambient noise. To preserve weak ultrasonic signals during ultrasonic signal processing, a laser ultrasonic signal denoising method, namely HHO-SVMD, based on the combination of Harris hawk optimization (HHO) algorithm and sequential variational mode decomposition (SVMD) was proposed. Firstly, the HHO algorithm was employed to optimize the key parameters of SVMD, thereby avoiding the problem of insufficient noise separation caused by manual parameter setting; secondly, the Bhattacharyya distance was introduced as a criterion in the signal reconstruction stage to accurately screen the mode components highly correlated with the laser ultrasonic signal, thereby obtaining a purer laser ultrasonic signal. The simulation and experiment results show that, compared with several existing denoising methods, the proposed method achieves a higher signal-to-noise ratio and a smaller root mean square error of the denoised signal while preserving the effective signal.
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