Benchmarking the Operation of a Hydro Power Network Through the
Application of Agent-Based Model Predictive Controllers
Reference
J.M. Maestre,
M.D. Doan,
D. Muñoz de la Peña,
P.J. van Overloop,
T. Keviczky,
M.A. Ridao, and
B. De Schutter,
"Benchmarking the Operation of a Hydro Power Network Through the
Application of Agent-Based Model Predictive Controllers," Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on
Hydroinformatics (HIC 2012), Hamburg, Germany, 8 pp., July
2012. Paper HIC2012_0338.
Abstract
This paper presents a comparison between a decentralized and a
distributed model-based predictive controller on a hydro power valley
(HPV) benchmark recently proposed. The HPV is composed by three lakes
and a river that is divided in six reaches that terminate with dams
equipped with turbines for power production. The lakes and the river
reaches are connected in three different ways: by a duct, ducts
equipped with a turbine, and ducts equipped with a pump and a turbine.
The river is fed by upstream inflows and tributary flows. In order to
test the controllers, the following test scenario is considered: the
power output of the system should follow a given reference while
keeping the water levels in the lakes and at the dams as constant as
possible. Finally, a 24 hour simulation for the two controllers has
been carried out in order to compare both methods using several
performance indices.
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Bibtex entry
@inproceedings{MaeDoa:12-007,
author={J.M. Maestre and M.D. Doan and D. {M}u{\~{n}}oz de la Pe{\~{n}}a and
P.J. van Overloop and T. Keviczky and M.A. Ridao and B. {D}e Schutter},
title={Benchmarking the Operation of a Hydro Power Network Through the
Application of Agent-Based Model Predictive Controllers},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Hydroinformatics
(HIC 2012)},
address={Hamburg, Germany},
month=jul,
year={2012},
note={Paper HIC2012\_0338}
}
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