Description

In this thesis, a distributed control architecture for large scale systems is proposed. This architecture is multi-agent based. The model plant is divided in several partitions and there is an MPC Agent in charge of each partition. MPC Agents interact over a platform that allows them to be located physically separated. One of the main new concepts of this architecture is the Negotiator Agent. Negotiator Agents interact with MPC Agents when they have common control variables. These shared variables represent physical connections between partitions that should be preserved in order to respect the topology of the network. The case of study in which the proposal architecture will be applied and tested is the Barcelona water transport network. First results of using the proposed methodology are based on a small academical water network example.