Publication

Partitioning approaches for large-scale water transport networks

Book Chapter (2017)

Book Title

Real-Time Monitoring and Operational Control of Drinking-Water Systems

Publisher

Springer

Pages

321-339

Volume

26

Serie

Advances in Industrial Control

Doc link

http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50751-4_16

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Abstract

Large-scale systems (LSS), such as Drinking water networks (DWN), present control theory with new challenges due to the large size of the plant and of its model. In order to apply decentralised or distributed control approaches to LSS, there is a prior problem to be solved: the system decomposition into subsystems. The importance of this issue has already been reported in the general literature of decentralised control of LSS. The decomposition of the system in subsystems could be carried out during the modelling of the process by identifying subsystems as parts of the system on the basis of physical insight, intuition or experience. But, when a large-scale complex system with many states, inputs and outputs is considered, it may be difficult, even impossible, to obtain partitions by physical reasoning. A more appealing alternative is to develop systematic methods, which can be used to decompose a given system by extracting information from its structure and representing it as a graph. Then, this structural information can be analysed by using methods coming from graph theory. This chapter discusses partitioning approaches towards the development of subsystem decomposition methods for LSS by reviewing automatic decomposition algorithms and techniques based on graph partitioning. The general aim of the discussed methods is to provide decompositions consisting of sets of non-overlapping subgraphs whose number of vertices is as similar as possible and the number of interconnecting edges between them is minimal. The real case study based on the Barcelona DWN is used to exemplify the discussed decomposition methodologies.

Categories

automation, control theory, optimisation.

Author keywords

large-scale systems, flow networks, complex systems, partitioning

Scientific reference

C. Ocampo-Martínez and V. Puig. Partitioning approaches for large-scale water transport networks. In Real-Time Monitoring and Operational Control of Drinking-Water Systems, 321-339. Springer, 2017.