Publications - Water networks

Bart De Schutter


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  1. R.R. Negenborn and B. De Schutter, "A distributed model predictive control approach for the control of irrigation canals," Proceedings of the International Conference on Infrastructure Systems 2008: Building Networks for a Brighter Future, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 6 pp., Nov. 2008. Paper 152.  (bibtex)

  2. R.R. Negenborn, P.-J. van Overloop, T. Keviczky, and B. De Schutter, "Distributed model predictive control of irrigation canals," Networks and Heterogeneous Media, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 359-380, June 2009.  (online paperbibtex)

  3. R.R. Negenborn, P.-J. van Overloop, and B. De Schutter, "Coordinated distributed model predictive reach control of irrigation canals," Proceedings of the European Control Conference 2009, Budapest, Hungary, pp. 1420-1425, Aug. 2009.  (bibtex)

  4. R.R. Negenborn, A. Sahin, Z. Lukszo, B. De Schutter, and M. Morari, "A non-iterative cascaded predictive control approach for control of irrigation canals," Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, San Antonio, Texas, pp. 3652-3657, Oct. 2009.  (bibtex)

  5. P.-J. van Overloop, R.R. Negenborn, B. De Schutter, and N.C. van de Giesen, "Predictive control for national water flow optimization in The Netherlands," Chapter 17 in Intelligent Infrastructures (R.R. Negenborn, Z. Lukszo, and H. Hellendoorn, eds.), vol. 42 of Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering, Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer, ISBN 978-90-481-3598-1, pp. 439-461, 2010.  (online versionbibtex)

  6. Y. Li, J. Alende, M. Cantoni, and B. De Schutter, "Decomposition of a fixed-profile load scheduling method for large-scale irrigation channels," Tech. rep. 10-033, Delft Center for Systems and Control, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, 6 pp., Feb. 2010. Accepted for the 19th IEEE International Conference on Control Applications (CCA 2010), Yokohama, Japan, Sept. 2010.  (bibtex)

  7. Y. Li and B. De Schutter, "Performance analysis of irrigation channels with distributed control," Tech. rep. 10-032, Delft Center for Systems and Control, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, 6 pp., Feb. 2010. Accepted for the 19th IEEE International Conference on Control Applications (CCA 2010), Yokohama, Japan, Sept. 2010.  (bibtex)

  8. R.R. Negenborn, P.-J. van Overloop, and B. De Schutter, "Coordination of local controllers in large-scale water systems," Tech. rep. 10-027, Delft Center for Systems and Control, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, 8 pp., Apr. 2010. Accepted for the 9th International Conference on Hydroinformatics (HIC 2010), Tianjin, China, Sept. 2010.  (bibtex)

  9. P.-J. van Overloop, R.R. Negenborn, S. Weijs, W. Malda, M. Bruggers, and B. De Schutter, "Linking water and energy objectives in lowland areas through the application of model predictive control," Tech. rep. 10-031, Delft Center for Systems and Control, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, 5 pp., May 2010. Accepted for the 19th IEEE International Conference on Control Applications (CCA 2010), Yokohama, Japan, Sept. 2010.  (bibtex)

  10. S. Leirens, C. Zamora, R.R. Negenborn, and B. De Schutter, "Coordination in urban water supply networks using distributed model predictive control," Proceedings of the 2010American Control Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, pp. 3957-3962, June-July 2010.  (bibtex)

  11. Y. Li and B. De Schutter, "Offtake feedforward compensator design for an irrigation channel with distributed control," Proceedings of the 2010American Control Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, pp. 3747-3752, June-July 2010.  (bibtex)

  12. M.D. Doan, T. Keviczky, and B. De Schutter, "An improved distributed version of Han's method for DMPC of canal systems," Proceedings of the 12th IFAC Symposium on Large Scale Systems: Theory and Applications, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France, 6 pp., July 2010.  (bibtex)

  13. S. Leirens, J.M. Giraldo, R.R. Negenborn, and B. De Schutter, "A pattern search method for improving the operation of sewer systems," Proceedings of the 12th IFAC Symposium on Large Scale Systems: Theory and Applications, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France, 6 pp., July 2010.  (bibtex)

  14. Y. Li and B. De Schutter, "Control of a string of identical pools using non-identical feedback controllers," Tech. rep. 10-051, Delft Center for Systems and Control, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, 6 pp., July 2010. Accepted for the 49th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Atlanta, Georgia, Dec. 2010.  (bibtex)



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