Adaptive Predictive Controller Applied to an Open Water Canal

• Author(s): Rato, Luís ; Salgueiro, Pedro ; Lemos, João Miranda ; Rijo, Manuel
• Date: 2007
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10174/1583
• Origin: Repositório Científico da Universidade de Évora
• Subject(s): Control; Adaptative; Canal; Predictive
• Document Type: Lecture
• Language: English

Description

This paper concerns to the application of adaptive control to a large scale water canal experimental plant. Water canals are complex spatially distributed systems which aim at distributing water either for irrigating, or domestic, or industrial purposes. In this paper a predictive adaptive control algorithm (MUSMAR) is applied to a large scale experimental water canal prototype. The experimental facilities with a fully instrumented canal, a PLC network and a SCADA system, are briefly described. This paper describes the developed software module and the MUSMAR control algorithm. Finaly, Some experimental results obtained in the experimental water canal, are presented.