Control and safety monitoring systems for large scale irrigation networks

Grant number: LP0349134

Abstract

The water losses in irrigation channels in Australia are large, but they can be substantially reduced by employing advanced control and monitoring systems, leading to significant environmental benefits. Due to the large size of the irrigation networks, design of control and monitoring systems represents technical challenges for which there are currently no good methodologies. In this project we will develop design methodologies, and in particular we will focus on issues relating to the communication constraints arising since data are transmitted over a radio network and the trade off between robustness and performance in centralised and decentralised designs.

Related publications (4)

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Detection of oscillations in control loops in irrigation channels

Su Ki Ooi, Erik Weyer

2011-03-01

Oscillation in irrigation channels have many undesired consequences such as increased erosion on channel banks, reduced level of s..

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Reconfiguration schemes to mitigate faults in automated irrigation channels

Sumith Choy, Erik Weyer

2008-10-01

The infrastructure associated with an automated irrigation channel contains a large number of actuators (electro-mechanical gates)..

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Control design for an irrigation channel from physical data

Su Ki Ooi, Erik Weyer

2008-09-01

In this paper a tool for initial design of decentralized controllers for an irrigation channel is developed, and field tests are c..

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On distributed anti-windup compensation for distributed linear control systems

Y Li, M Cantoni

2007-12-01

For a class of (marginally) stable linear plants with distributed structure, it is shown that a well-known antiwindup/bumpless-tra..

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