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The VMD algorithm determines the central frequency and bandwidth of each Intrinsic Mode Function (IMF) by iteratively searching for the optimal solution of the variational mode and is capable of adaptively and effectively dividing the signal in the frequency domain into the many IMFs. However, the penalty parameter \u03b1 and the number of IMFs K in VMD processing are determined depending on manual experience, which are important parameters affecting the decomposition results. In this paper, we propose a method to automatically search the parameters \u03b1 and K optimally by Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm. Then the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and root-mean-square error (RMSE) are used to judge the best superposition of the IMFs for data reconstruction, and the process is data-driven without human subjective intervention. 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