Reference:
J.M. Maestre,
L. Raso,
P.J. van Overloop, and
B. De Schutter,
"Distributed tree-based model predictive control on an open water
system," Proceedings of the 2012 American Control Conference,
Montréal, Canada, pp. 1985-1990, June 2012.
Abstract:
Open water systems are one of the most externally influenced systems
due to their size and continuous exposure to uncertain meteorological
forces. In this paper we use a stochastic programming approach to
control a drainage system in which the weather forecast is modeled as
a disturbance tree. A model predictive controller is used to optimize
the expected value of the system variables taking into account the
disturbance tree. This technique, tree-based model predictive control
(TBMPC), is solved in a parallel fashion by means of dual
decomposition. In addition, different possibilities are explored to
reduce the communicational burden of the parallel algorithm. Finally,
the performance of this technique is compared with others such as
minmax or multiple model predictive control.