Feed-Forward river flow control using differential flatness

Author

Meglio, Florent Di ; Rabbani, T. ; Litrico, X. ; Bayen, Alexandre M.

Author_Institution

Ecole des Mines de Paris, Paris, France

fYear

2008

fDate

9-11 Dec. 2008

Firstpage

3895

Lastpage

3902

Abstract

The rarefaction of global water resources is a motivation for research on automation of management of water distribution systems. Large amounts of fresh water are lost due to poor management of open-channel systems. This article focuses on the management of such canals which are used to convey water from the resource (generally a dam located upstream) to a specific downstream location. Due to the fluctuations of water needs, water demand changes with time. This change in demand calls for the efficient operation of the open-channel systems to avoid overflows and to supply desired flow rates at pre-specified time instants.

Keywords

feedforward; flow control; rivers; water resources; differential flatness; feed-forward river flow control; global water resources; open-channel systems; rarefaction; water distribution systems; Control systems; Differential equations; Fault location; Feedforward systems; Irrigation; Laplace equations; Open loop systems; Partial differential equations; Rivers; Water resources;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Decision and Control, 2008. CDC 2008. 47th IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

Cancun

ISSN

0191-2216

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3123-6

Electronic_ISBN

0191-2216

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CDC.2008.4738968

Filename

4738968