Benchmarking the Operation of a Hydro Power Network Through the Application of Agent-Based Model Predictive Controllers

Reference

J. M. Maestre, M. D. Doan, D. Muñoz de la Peña, P. J. van Overloop, T. Keviczky, M. A. Ridao, and B. De Schutter, "Benchmarking the operation of a hydro power network through the application of agent-based model predictive controllers," Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Hydroinformatics (HIC 2012), Hamburg, Germany, 8 pp., July 2012. Paper HIC2012_0338.

Abstract

This paper presents a comparison between a decentralized and a distributed model-based predictive controller on a hydro power valley (HPV) benchmark recently proposed. The HPV is composed by three lakes and a river that is divided in six reaches that terminate with dams equipped with turbines for power production. The lakes and the river reaches are connected in three different ways: by a duct, ducts equipped with a turbine, and ducts equipped with a pump and a turbine. The river is fed by upstream inflows and tributary flows. In order to test the controllers, the following test scenario is considered: the power output of the system should follow a given reference while keeping the water levels in the lakes and at the dams as constant as possible. Finally, a 24 hour simulation for the two controllers has been carried out in order to compare both methods using several performance indices.

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BibTeX

@inproceedings{MaeDoa:12-007,
   author    = {Maestre, Jos{\'{e}} M. and Doan, Minh Dang and Mu{\~{n}}oz de
                la Pe{\~{n}}a, David and van Overloop, Peter Jules and
                Keviczky, Tam{\'a}s and Ridao, Miguel A. and De Schutter,
                Bart},
   title     = {Benchmarking the Operation of a Hydro Power Network Through the
                Application of Agent-Based Model Predictive Controllers},
   booktitle = {Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on
                Hydroinformatics (HIC 2012)},
   address   = {Hamburg, Germany},
   month     = jul,
   year      = {2012},
   note      = {Paper HIC2012\_0338}
   }


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