Predictive Adaptive Control of water level in canal pools

• Author(s): Lemos, João Miranda ; Rato, Luís ; Machado, Fernando ; Nogueira, Nuno ; Salgueiro, Pedro ; Rijo, Manuel
• Date: 2007
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10174/1372
• Origin: Repositório Científico da Universidade de Évora
• Subject(s): Control; Adaptative; Canal; Predictive; Water
• Document Type: Lecture
• Language: English

Description

A case study on the use of a predictive adaptive algorithm to control pool level in a pilot water distribuition canal is described. The algorithm is a modification of the basic MUSMAR controller that includes parallel integral action and, in the case of multiple pools, feedforward action to coordinate the gates. Experimental results in the case of a single pool and simulations for multiple pools are presented. The contributions of the paper stem from the explicitation of rules for tuning the adaptive controller in a practical situation and from the coordination of different pools using reduced complexity controllers and feedforward in a multivariable setting