Economic health-aware LPV-MPC based on system reliability assessment for water transport network

This paper proposes a health-aware control approach for drinking water transport networks. This approach is based on an economic model predictive control (MPC) that considers an additional goal with the aim of extending the components and system reliability. The components and system reliability are...

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Autores: Karimi Pour, Fatemeh, Puig Cayuela, Vicenç|||0000-0002-6364-6429, Cembrano Gennari, Gabriela|||0000-0003-1436-6022
Formato: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:España
Recursos:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/182040
Acesso em linha:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/182040
https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en12153015
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Drinking water networks
Reliability
Economic cost
Model predictive control
Linear parameter varying
Classificació INSPEC::Control theory::Predictive control
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Informàtica::Automàtica i control
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Energies
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Resumo:This paper proposes a health-aware control approach for drinking water transport networks. This approach is based on an economic model predictive control (MPC) that considers an additional goal with the aim of extending the components and system reliability. The components and system reliability are incorporated into the MPC model using a Linear Parameter Varying (LPV) modeling approach. The MPC controller uses additionally an economic objective function that determines the optimal filling/emptying sequence of the tanks considering that electricity price varies between day and night and that the demand also follows a 24-h repetitive pattern. The proposed LPV-MPC control approach allows considering the model nonlinearities by embedding them in the parameters. The values of these varying parameters are updated at each iteration taking into account the new values of the scheduling variables. In this way, the optimization problem associated with the MPC problem is solved by means of Quadratic Programming (QP) to avoid the use of nonlinear programming. This iterative approach reduces the computational load compared to the solution of a nonlinear optimization problem. A case study based on the Barcelona water transport network is used for assessing the proposed approach performance.