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To ensure that the dredger can continue construction operations when the mud concentration meter is damaged, the development of a dredger with advantages of low price and simple operation that can be used in emergency situations is essential. The characteristic spare mud concentration meter is particularly critical. In this study, a data-driven soft sensor method is proposed that can predict the mud concentration in real time and can mitigate current marine mud concentration meter malfunctions, which affects continuous construction. This sensor can also replace the mud concentration meter when the construction is stable, thereby extending its service life. The method is applied to two actual construction cases, and the results show that the stacking generalization (SG) model has a good prediction effect in the two cases, and its goodness of fit R2 values are as high as 0.9774 and 0.9919, indicating that this method can successfully detect the mud concentration.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s20216075","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,10,26]],"date-time":"2020-10-26T10:38:35Z","timestamp":1603708715000},"page":"6075","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":16,"title":["A Novel Method with Stacking Learning of Data-Driven Soft Sensors for Mud Concentration in a Cutter Suction Dredger"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"20","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2556-0904","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Bin","family":"Wang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Energy and Power Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430063, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Shi-dong","family":"Fan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Energy and Power Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430063, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Pan","family":"Jiang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Energy and Power Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430063, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Han-hua","family":"Zhu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Energy and Power Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430063, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Ting","family":"Xiong","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Energy and Power Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430063, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4432-4544","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Wei","family":"Wei","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Energy and Power Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430063, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0457-4461","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Zhen-long","family":"Fang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Energy and Power Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430063, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,10,26]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"50","DOI":"10.1016\/j.enggeo.2016.06.019","article-title":"Modeling fluid pressure effects when cutting saturated rock","volume":"211","author":"Helmons","year":"2016","journal-title":"Eng. 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