Expert system for flood management in Lake Manapouri

Author

Samarasinghe, Sandhya ; McKinnon, Alan ; Bright, John

Author_Institution

Lincoln Univ., Canterbury, New Zealand

fYear

1993

fDate

24-26 Nov 1993

Firstpage

266

Lastpage

269

Abstract

Flood water in Lake Manapouri is released according to strictly formulated flood rules. The Real-time Flood Assistant is an expert system which incorporates Lake Manapouri flood rules and the experience of the control room operators at Transpower NZ Ltd. to assist them in the release of flood water. The expert system is being developed in Level5 Object. The program is mainly an event-driven system based on forward chaining inferencing in conjunction with object-oriented methods. Backward chaining inferencing is used only at the beginning of the program to establish initial data. With the use of built-in clocks, the expert system runs in real-time, assisting the operators with the release decisions which are made about every 1½ hours

Keywords

clocks; dams; disasters; expert systems; hydroelectric power; hydrology; inference mechanisms; intelligent control; lakes; level control; object-oriented programming; Lake Manapouri; Level5 Object; New Zealand; Real-time Flood Assistant; Transpower NZ Ltd.; backward chaining inferencing; built-in clocks; control room operators; event-driven system; flood management expert system; flood rules; flood water release; forward chaining inferencing; object-oriented methods; Agricultural engineering; Biometrics; Control systems; Expert systems; Floods; Lakes; Object oriented methods; Power generation; Rivers; Water resources;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Artificial Neural Networks and Expert Systems, 1993. Proceedings., First New Zealand International Two-Stream Conference on

Conference_Location

Dunedin

Print_ISBN

0-8186-4260-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ANNES.1993.323005

Filename

323005