GoRoSoBo: an overall control diagram to improve the efficiency of water transport systems in real time

Agriculture plays an important part in the food chain and water resources for agriculture are essential. A problem is that the water transport systems present low efficiencies in practice. Crop yields must be optimized, and the goal of an operational water manager is to deliver water to irrigation s...

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Autores: Bonet Gil, Enrique|||0000-0002-2782-5366, Gómez Valentín, Manuel|||0000-0001-7042-5897, Yubero de Mateo, Maria Teresa|||0000-0003-1871-8507, Fernández-Francos, Xavier
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2017
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/113399
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/113399
https://dx.doi.org/10.2166/hydro.2017.225
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Open-channel flow
canal automation
irrigation canal
agricultural demands
canal Control
Flow rate extractions
Open channel flow
Optimization algorithms
Canals -- Control
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria civil::Enginyeria hidràulica, marítima i sanitària::Canals i regadius
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Sumario:Agriculture plays an important part in the food chain and water resources for agriculture are essential. A problem is that the water transport systems present low efficiencies in practice. Crop yields must be optimized, and the goal of an operational water manager is to deliver water to irrigation sites accurately and efficiently. In order to fulfill this objective, we propose a centralized overall control diagram to optimize the management of the canal. Our control diagram in real time is mainly composed of two algorithms, CSE and GoRoSoBo. The first one is a powerful tool in canal management, and is able to estimate the real extracted flow in the canal and the hydrodynamic canal state from measured level data at selected points. The second one is an essential tool in the management of the canal, a feedback control algorithm operating in real time. The GoRoSoBo algorithm (Gómez, Rodellar, Soler, Bonet) is able to calculate the optimum gates trajectories for a predictive horizon taking into account the current canal state and the real extracted flow, both obtained by CSE.