Distributed LQG control of a water delivery canal with feedforward from measure...

• Author(s): Lemos, João ; Pinto, Luís ; Rato, Luís ; Rijo, Manuel
• Date: 2012
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10174/7086
• Origin: Repositório Científico da Universidade de Évora
• Subject(s): Irrigation canal; distributed control; feedforward; flow measurement; linear quadratic Gaussian control; LQG control algorithm
• Document Type: Article
• Language: English
• Editor(s): IEEE

Description

This work addresses the design of distributed LQG controllers for water delivery canals that include feedforward from local farmer water consumptions. The proposed architecture consists of a network of local control agents, each connected to one of the canal pools and sharing information with their neighbors in order to act in a coordinated way. In order to improve performance, the measurement of the outflows from each pool is used as a feedforward signal. Although the feedforward action is local. It propagates due to the coordinates procedure. The paper presents the distributed LQG algorithm with feedforward and experimental results in a large scale pilot water delivery canal.