Publication

Flooding management using hybrid model predictive control at the Ebro river in Spain

Conference Article

Conference

IWA Symposium on System Analysis and Integrated Assessment (WATERMATEX)

Edition

8th

Pages

1-8

Doc link

http://www.watermatex2011.org/?page_id=648

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Abstract

In this paper, the problem of flooding management at the Ebro River in Spain is presented. The Ebro river presents flooding episodes in the city of Zaragoza in spring when snow melts in the Pyrenees. To avoid flooding in living areas, some lands outside the city are prepared to be flooded. This paper presents a hybrid model predictive control approach to determine and fix the level of flooding in preestablished zones by controlling the gates that controls the water input to the land to be flooded. Finally, several scenarios are used to validate the performance of the proposed approach.

Categories

control theory, mathematical programming, optimisation.

Author keywords

water systems, rivers, simulation, predictive control, tele-control systems

Scientific reference

J. Romera, C. Ocampo-Martínez, V. Puig, J. Quevedo, P. García and G. Pérez. Flooding management using hybrid model predictive control at the Ebro river in Spain, 8th IWA Symposium on System Analysis and Integrated Assessment, 2011, San Sebastian, Spain, pp. 1-8, IWA.