The scarcity of fresh water is becoming one of the most important environment constraints and has a major impact on economic
development and the quality of life in the South of Europe, including Portugal. The AQUANET project aims at contributing to mitigate
these problems by the development of advanced control methodologies for optimizing the management of water conveyance and
delivery in multipurpose open-channel systems, with the goal of minimizing the use of energy and water spills. Besides this major
socioeconomic motivation, contributing to the solution of this problem implies the need to push forward research in several aspects
of control, namely the development of decentralized controller networks for
multipurpose hydraulic open-channel systems where a network of local decision agents cooperate in order to achieve a near optimum
solution with fault tolerant capability.
Click on the items of the list on the left to know more about the project
and the results obtained.
Under the heading "Documents" you will find a list of papers and reports,
some of which may be downloaded.
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