Abstract:At present, traditional signal processing methods can not effectively solve the problems of mode aliasing and large noise of ultrasonic signal of needle composite insulator, so a signal extraction method based on improved variational mode decomposition and wavelet packet decomposition is proposed. In this method, the salp swarm algorithm replaces the existing domestic and foreign mainstream optimization algorithms for variational mode decomposition, and then the decomposed components are processed and reconstructed by wavelet packet denoising algorithm, so as to obtain a clean de-sticking signal. The simulation results show that this method can effectively improve the optimization speed of mode number and penalty factor without changing the optimization effect, and greatly improve the processing effect of analog and noisy signals. The experimental results show that this method can effectively solve the problem of the mode aliasing of the second echo and the problem of large inherent circuit noise in the signal, and the imaging effect of the processed B-scan image is also greatly improved.