Is It Better to Use Gate Opening as Control Variable than Discharge to Control Irrigation Canals?
Publication: Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering
Volume 141, Issue 3
Abstract
Centralized model predictive controllers are common in water systems. The control action variable can be the discharge, and the subsystems (canal pools) are modeled separately. This paper focuses on short canal pools where the interactions are stronger between canal pools. Could this procedure be better if gate openings were used as control action variables and the interconnected system were modeled for the controller? Model predictive controllers (MPCs) were developed using the discharge and the gate opening as control action variable and tested experimentally using the laboratory canal of the Technical University of Catalonia. It was found that for centralized MPCs for short canal pools, the use of gate opening as control action variable is more beneficial than discharge. Another additional advantage is that in this way it is possible to put constraints on the gate opening and the change of gate opening, which are important to the limitations of the physical system.
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Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering
Volume 141 • Issue 3 • March 2015
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Received: Dec 16, 2013
Accepted: Jun 30, 2014
Published online: Aug 12, 2014
Discussion open until: Jan 12, 2015
Published in print: Mar 1, 2015
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