A distributed model predictive control approach for the control of irrigation canals

Conference paper (2008)
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Delft Center for Systems and Control (Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering) (TU Delft)
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01-11-2008

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Proceedings of the First International Conference on Infrastructure Systems: Building Networks for a Brighter Future, INFRA 2008, 10-12 November 2008, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering

Department

Delft Center for Systems and Control

Abstract

Water networks are large-scale systems, consisting of many interacting components. They are currently typically operated by local decentralized controllers which receive setpoints from human operators. We discuss how communication among the local controllers can be included and in particular propose the use of distributed model predictive control for enabling the local controllers to determine setpoints autonomously using communication and coordination. We consider the control of a particular class of water networks, viz. irrigation canals. A simulation study on a 7-reach irrigation canal illustrates the potential of the proposed approach.