PROGRAM

Klaudia HORVÁTH

Title : Challenges and lessons on practical implementation of MPC of water systems?
Session : Provided soon
Deltares (Delft, Netherlands)

Bio : Klaudia Horváth is working on model predictive control of water systems for more than 15 years, both in academia and practice. She obtained her PhD at the Technical University of Catalonia about controlling long flat channels with resonance waves. She has been cooperating with institutes such as École de Mines de Douai, Eindhoven University of Technology, Delft University of Technology. She has been teaching  and giving guest lectures including in Colombia. In the last few years she is working by Deltares as researcher / consultant in operational water management. She is in the development team of the open source software RTC-Tools. She has been implementing control algorithms that are used operationally in real-time for polder systems, hydropower systems, lakes in the Netherlands and abroad including Canada and Australia. Her main research interest is modelling water systems for control purposes.

Abstract : There has been more than 32decades of research on MPC of water systems, yet there are few implementations. What is causing the gap between research and implementation? After some years of developing algorithms now I see the other side of the coin: the people who would like to use them and the challenges that they are facing. What is the difference between a published algorithm and the one that is running the pumps of IJmuiden? How can we make sure that practitioners really benefit from our research? In this presentation I am looking for answers, proposing different alternatives to these questions.