WATERNET

Intelligent Control and Distributed Supervision in Water Management Network, ESPRIT IV, project No. 22.186. Durada: 1996 - 1998.

Project description

The main focus of the WATERNET project is two-fold:

The development of several subsystems performing the necessary functionalities (i.e. the supervision, the simulation, the machine learning, the models manager, the optimisation, the remote unit, and the water quality);

The integration of these subsystems into a coherent environment, in which the subsystems can easily access and exchange the information they need from the other subsystems, in order to function properly.

SAC contribution to the project was specially in the optimisation module developement (this work pakage was leaded by SAC) and in machine learning applied to demand forecast.

Optimal control in water networks deals with the problem of generating control strategies ahead of time, to guarantee a good service in the network, while achieving certain performance goals, which may include one or more of the following, according to the needs of a specic utility: minimization of supply and pumping costs, maximization of water quality, pressure regulation for leak prevention, etc. The optimization process consists of searching the space of admissible control actions to obtain the minimum (or maximum) value of the performance index, while producing only admissible states of the network.

SAC contributions

Research team

Joseba Quevedo*, Gabriela cembrano**, Rosa Aregelaguet*, Ramon Pérez*
* Technical University of Catalunya (UPC)

** CSIC

Jounal Papers

Cembrano, M., Wells, G., Quevedo, J., Pérez, R., Argelaguet, R. Optimal control of a water distribution network in a supervisory control system. Control engineering practice, vol. 8(10), pp. 1177-1188, 2000. <doi:10.1016/S0967-0661(00)00058-7>
Pérez, R.; Quevedo, J. Parameter error detection in water distribution system models. Ingeniería, automática y comunicaciones, Juliol 2001, vol. XXII, núm. 3, p. 33-37.

Conference Papers

Pérez, R.; Quevedo, J. Macrolibration of Water Distribution Systems Models using Classification. In: "Water Software Systems: theory and applications". B. Ulanicki, B. Coulbeck, J.P. Rance, 2001, p. 75-86.
Pérez, R. Criteria for applying optimisation in water distribution networks. In: "Water industry systems : modelling and optimization applications". Savic, D.; Walters, G. (ed.) Research Studies, 1999, p. 369-378.
Quevedo J., Pérez R., Wells G., Cembrano G., Argelaguet R. New design of an optimization tool for water distribution networks. In: 14th IFAC Worl Congress. "14th IFAC world congress". International Federation of Automatic Control, 1999, p. 127-132.
Cembrano, G; Quevedo, J; Wells, G; Pérez, R; Argelaguet, R. Advanced control of water distribution networks: the Waternet project. In: 'Workshop on European Scientific and Industrial Collaboration on Promoting. "Advanced technologies in manufacturing. WESIC'98". Universitat de Girona, 1998, p. 417-419
Cembrano, M. Optimization in Water Industry. "International Conference on Computing and Control for the Water Industry". 1997
Pérez, R. Waternet: supervisión avanzada de redes de distribución de agua potable. A: "Simposium sobre "Tecnologías apropiadas en abastecimiento de agua a pequeños núcleos habitados"". UPC, Grupo Tecnología del Agua, 1997, p. 397-402
Pérez, R. WATERNET: Supervisión Avanzada de Redes de Distribución de Agua Potable. "Simposio Internacional Gestión y Tecnologías Apropiadas para el Agua en Pequeños núcleos Habitados". 1997.
Quevedo, J. Waternet: Supervisión Avanzada de Redes de Distribución de Agua Potable. "Simposio Internacional Gestión y Tecnologías Apropiadas para el Agua en Pequeños núcleos Habitados". 1997.

Thesis

Pérez, R. Identifiability and calibration of water network models.