Research Project

ITACA: Integración de técnicas avanzadas de modelado, control y supervisión aplicadas a la gestión del ciclo integral del agua

Type

National Project

Start Date

01/10/2006

End Date

31/12/2009

Project Code

DPI2006-11944

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Project Description

This project proposal deals with the contribution of advanced modelling, control and supervision techniques to improve the management of hydraulic systems involved in the urban water cycle. This cycle is comprised of the drinking water supply, delivery and distribution as well as the urban drainage system, which collects sewage and rainwater and renders it back to the receiving environment, in general, after an appropriate treatment. The proposal involves developing mathematical models of hydraulic dynamic systems in the urban water cycle by using new hybrid systems techniques, as well as the design and implementation of predictive controllers to compute, ahead in time, the control policies and strategies which contribute to optimize:
• Allocation of limited water resources,
• Quality of service to users,
• Avoidance of flooding due to rainwater exceeding urban drainage capacity,
• Avoidance of polluting discharges to the receiving waters in urban drainage, among many others.
The computation and implementation of the control strategies is associated to the use of telemetry and telecontrol systems. Demonstrators of the achievable benefits will be developed, based on real cases supplied by the collaborating companies.

Project Publications

Journal Publications

  • V. Puig, G. Cembrano, J. Romera, J. Quevedo, B. Aznar, G. Ramón and J. Cabot. Predictive optimal control of sewer networks using CORAL tool: application to Riera Blanca catchment in Barcelona. Water Science & Technology, 60(4): 869-878, 2009.

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  • V. Puig, J. Romera, J. Quevedo, S. Cardona, A. Salterain, E. Ayesa, I. Irizar, A. Castro, M. Lujan, P. Charbonnaud, P. Chiron and J. Trouvat. Optimal predictive control of water transport systems: Arrêt-Darré/Arros case study. Water Science & Technology, 60(8): 2125-2133, 2009.

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  • C. Ocampo-Martínez and V. Puig. Fault-tolerant model predictive control within the hybrid systems framework: application to sewer networks. International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing, 23(8): 757-787, 2009.

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  • C. Ocampo-Martínez, V. Puig, G. Cembrano, R. Creus and M. Minoves. Improving water management efficiency by using optimization-based control strategies: the Barcelona case study. Water Science & Technology: Water Supply, 9(5): 565-575, 2009.

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Conference Publications

  • V. Puig, T. Escobet, C. Ocampo-Martínez and S. Tornil-Sin. Robust fault diagnosis of non-linear systems using constraints satisfaction, 7th IFAC Symposium on Fault Detection Supervision and Safety for Technical Processes, 2009, Barcelona, Spain, pp. 1138-1143.

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  • V. Puig, C. Ocampo-Martínez, G. Cembrano, R. Creus and M. Minoves. Improving water management efficiency by using optimal control strategies: the Barcelona case study, 10th IWA Conference on Instrumentation, Control and Automation, 2009, Cairns, Australia, pp. 1-9, IWA.

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  • C. Ocampo-Martínez and V. Puig. On modelling approaches for receding-horizon control design applied to large-scale sewage systems, 48th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2009, Shanghai, pp. 8052-8058, IEEE.

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Other Publications

  • C. Ocampo-Martínez. Model predictive control of wastewater systems. Volume 30 of Advances in Industrial Control. Springer, 2011.

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  • V. Fambrini and C. Ocampo-Martínez. Modelling and decentralized model predictive control of drinking water networks. Technical Report IRI-TR-09-04, Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial, CSIC-UPC, 2009.

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  • E. Caini, V. Puig and G. Cembrano. Development of a simulation environment for water drinking networks: application to the Barcelona case study. Technical Report IRI-TR-09-03, Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial, CSIC-UPC, 2009.

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  • C. Ocampo-Martínez and V. Puig. Modelling approaches for MPC of large-scale sewage systems. Technical Report IRI-TR-09-01, Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial, CSIC-UPC, 2009.

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  • B. Joseph and C. Ocampo-Martínez. Reducció de variables en problemes de control predictiu amb restriccions d’igualtat. Technical Report IRI-TR-09-07, Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial, CSIC-UPC, 2009.

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  • C. Ocampo-Martínez, J.A. De Doná and M. Seron. Actuator fault-tolerant control based on set separation. Technical Report IRI-TR-08-09, Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial, CSIC-UPC, 2008.

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