A Distributed Accelerated Gradient Algorithm for Distributed Model Predictive Control of a Hydro Power Valley

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M. D. Doan, P. Giselsson, T. Keviczky, B. De Schutter, and A. Rantzer, "A distributed accelerated gradient algorithm for distributed model predictive control of a hydro power valley," Control Engineering Practice, vol. 21, no. 11, pp. 1594-1605, Nov. 2013.

Abstract

A distributed model predictive control (DMPC) approach based on distributed optimization is applied to the power reference tracking problem of a hydro power valley (HPV) system. The applied optimization algorithm is based on accelerated gradient methods and achieves a convergence rate of O(1/k2), where k is the iteration number. Major challenges in the control of the HPV include a nonlinear and large-scale model, nonsmoothness in the power-production functions, and a globally coupled cost function that prevents distributed schemes to be applied directly. We propose a linearization and approximation approach that accommodates the proposed the DMPC framework and provides very similar performance compared to a centralized solution in simulations. The provided numerical studies also suggest that for the sparsely interconnected system at hand, the distributed algorithm we propose is faster than a centralized state-of-the-art solver such as CPLEX.

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@article{DoaGis:13-027,
   author  = {Doan, Minh Dang and Giselsson, Pontus and Keviczky, Tam{\'a}s and
              De Schutter, Bart and Rantzer, Anders},
   title   = {A Distributed Accelerated Gradient Algorithm for Distributed
              Model Predictive Control of a Hydro Power Valley},
   journal = {Control Engineering Practice},
   volume  = {21},
   number  = {11},
   pages   = {1594--1605},
   month   = nov,
   year    = {2013}
   }


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