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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