Tuning of predictive controllers for drinking water networked systems

Abstract

In this paper, two tuning strategies for a multi-objective predictive controller applied to a drinking water network (DWN) are proposed. A control-oriented DWN model is brie y reviewed, together with its management objectives. A comparison of methods to explore the Pareto front of the multi-objective optimisation (MOO) problem behind the predictive controller is presented with an e ective normalisation method for the model predictive control (MPC) objectives. The proposed tuning strategies, applied to a real-life case study, are compared. Finally, simulation results show that the proposed MPC tuning strategies outperform the baseline results.