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.
Automatic Control Department and Industrial Robotics Institute, Technical University of Catalonia, Rambla Sant Nebridi, Terrassa, Spain. vicenc.puig@upc.edu
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Puig
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Romera
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Quevedo
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Cardona
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Salterain
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Irizar
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Castro
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Lujan
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Charbonnaud
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D003198:Computer Simulation; D005602:France; D005843:Geography; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D011891:Rain; D045483:Rivers; D014872:Water Movements