Optimal predictive control of water transport systems: Arrêt-Darré/Arros case study.
This paper proposes the use of predictive optimal control as a suitable methodology to manage efficiently transport water networks. The predictive optimal controller is implemented using MPC control techniques. The Arrêt-Darré/Arros dam-river system located in the Southwest region of France is proposed as case study. A high-fidelity dynamic simulator based on the full Saint-Venant equations and able to reproduce this system is developed in MATLAB/SIMULINK to validate the performance of the developed predictive optimal control system. The control objective in the Arrêt-Darré/Arros dam-river system is to guarantee an ecological flow rate at a control point downstream of the Arrêt-Darré dam by controlling the outflow of this dam in spite of the unmeasured disturbances introduced by rainfalls incomings and farmer withdrawals.
Puig
V
V
Automatic Control Department and Industrial Robotics Institute, Technical University of Catalonia, Rambla Sant Nebridi, Terrassa, Spain. vicenc.puig@upc.edu
Romera
J
J
Quevedo
J
J
Cardona
C M
CM
Salterain
A
A
Ayesa
E
E
Irizar
I
I
Castro
A
A
Lujan
M
M
Charbonnaud
P
P
Chiron
P
P
Trouvat
J-L
JL
D003198:Computer Simulation; D005602:France; D005843:Geography; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D011891:Rain; D045483:Rivers; D014872:Water Movements