Offtake feedforward compensator design for an irrigation channel with distributed control


Reference:
Y. Li and B. De Schutter, "Offtake feedforward compensator design for an irrigation channel with distributed control," Proceedings of the 2010 American Control Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, pp. 3747-3752, June-July 2010.

Abstract:
In the control of irrigation channels, there exists a tradeoff between the local performance of regulating the water-level in each pool to a given setpoint and rejecting offtake disturbances, on the one hand, and decoupling between pools, on the other. Such a tradeoff is well managed by a distributed control that inherits the interconnection structure of the plant. Furthermore, to decrease the water-level deviation from its setpoint in response to large offtakes, i.e. to improve the transient response of the local closed-loop system, the knowledge of the offtakes can be fed forward. This paper explores the designing of a feedforward compensator to improve local control performance while maintaining the good management of closed-loop coupling between pools by distributed control.


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Bibtex entry:

@inproceedings{LiDeS:10-017,
        author={Y. Li and B. {D}e Schutter},
        title={Offtake feedforward compensator design for an irrigation channel with distributed control},
        booktitle={Proceedings of the 2010 American Control Conference},
        address={Baltimore, Maryland},
        pages={3747--3752},
        month=jun # {--} # jul,
        year={2010}
        }



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