Control of a String of Identical Pools Using Non-Identical Feedback Controllers

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Y. Li and B. De Schutter, "Control of a string of identical pools using non-identical feedback controllers," IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, vol. 20, no. 6, pp. 1638-1646, Nov. 2012.

Abstract

In the distant-downstream control of irrigation channels, the interactions between pools and the internal time-delay for water to travel from upstream to downstream, impose limitations on global performance, i.e. there exists propagation of water-level errors and amplification of flows over gates in the upstream direction. This paper analyzes these coupling properties for a string of identical pools, both with identical feedback controllers and with non-identical feedback controllers. A definition of string stability in terms of bounded water-level errors and bounded flows is given. It is shown that for a string of an infinite number of pools, string stability cannot be achieved by decentralized distant-downstream feedback control mainly due to the internal time-delay for water to travel from upstream to downstream. Applying the analysis results on string stability to a string of a finite number of pools, i.e. using non-identical feedback controllers in a distant-downstream control structure such that the closed-loop bandwidths of the subsystems increase from downstream to upstream, a much better global performance can be achieved than in the case of using identical feedback controllers.

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@article{LiDeS:12-001,
   author  = {Li, Yuping and De Schutter, Bart},
   title   = {Control of a String of Identical Pools Using Non-Identical
              Feedback Controllers},
   journal = {IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology},
   volume  = {20},
   number  = {6},
   pages   = {1638--1646},
   month   = nov,
   year    = {2012}
   }


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