Model Predictive Control of a River Reach with Weirs

9 pages•Published: September 20, 2018

Klaudia Horváth, Bart van Esch, Jorn Baayen, Ivo Pothof, Jan Talsma and Tjerk Vreeken

Abstract

A decision support system for water management based on convex optimization, RTC-Tools 2, is applied for a water system containing river branches connected by weirs. The advantage of convex optimization is the ability of finding the global optimum, which makes the decision support system robust and deterministic. In this work the convex modeling of open water channels and weirs is presented. The decision support system is implemented for a river made of 12 river reaches divided by movable weirs. It is shown how the discharge wave is dispatched in the river without the water levels exceeding the bounds by controlling the weir heights. After this test the optimization can be applied to a realistic numerical model and model predictive control can be implemented.

Keyphrases: convex, hydraulic structures, model predictive control, optimization, weir

In: Goffredo La Loggia, Gabriele Freni, Valeria Puleo and Mauro De Marchis (editors). HIC 2018. 13th International Conference on Hydroinformatics, vol 3, pages 908-916.

Links:	https://easychair.org/publications/paper/hrfR
	https://doi.org/10.29007/1nnf

BibTeX entry

@inproceedings{HIC2018:Model_Predictive_Control_River,
  author    = {Klaudia Horváth and Bart van Esch and Jorn Baayen and Ivo Pothof and Jan Talsma and Tjerk Vreeken},
  title     = {Model Predictive Control of a River Reach with Weirs},
  booktitle = {HIC 2018. 13th International Conference on Hydroinformatics},
  editor    = {Goffredo La Loggia and Gabriele Freni and Valeria Puleo and Mauro De Marchis},
  series    = {EPiC Series in Engineering},
  volume    = {3},
  publisher = {EasyChair},
  bibsource = {EasyChair, https://easychair.org},
  issn      = {2516-2330},
  url       = {/publications/paper/hrfR},
  doi       = {10.29007/1nnf},
  pages     = {908-916},
  year      = {2018}}

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