TY - UNPB A1 - Sampathirao, Ajay Kumar A1 - Grosso Pérez, Juan Manuel A1 - Sopasakis, Pantelis A1 - Ocampo-Martinez, Carlos A1 - Bemporad, Alberto A1 - Puig, Vicenç SP - 10457 PB - IFAC T2 - Proceedings of the 19th IFAC World Congress TI - Water demand forecasting for the optimal operation of large-scale drinking water networks: the Barcelona case study UR - http://www.ifac-papersonline.net/Detailed/68585.html N1 - 19th IFAC World Congress, August 24-29, 2014, Cape Town, South Africa EP - 10462 Y1 - 2014/08// AV - public KW - Water supply and distribution systems; Control of large-scale systems; Model predictive and optimization-based control; Process control applications SN - 978-3-902823-62-5 N2 - Drinking Water Networks (DWN) are large-scale multiple-input multiple-output systems with uncertain disturbances (such as the water demand from the consumers) and involve components of linear, non-linear and switching nature. Operating, safety and quality constraints deem it important for the state and the input of such systems to be constrained into a given domain. Moreover, DWNs' operation is driven by time-varying demands and involves an considerable consumption of electric energy and the exploitation of limited water resources. Hence, the management of these networks must be carried out optimally with respect to the use of available resources and infrastructure, whilst satisfying high service levels for the drinking water supply. To accomplish this task, this paper explores various methods for demand forecasting, such as Seasonal ARIMA, BATS and Support Vector Machine, and presents a set of statistically validated time series models. These models, integrated with a Model Predictive Control (MPC) strategy addressed in this paper, allow to account for an accurate on-line forecasting and flow management of a DWN. ID - eprints2326 ER -