Cooperative Control of Water Volumes of Parallel Ponds Attached to An Open Channel Based on Information Consensus with Minimum Diversion Water Loss

Decision making through information sharing for a canal irrigation system is discussed in this paper. A consensus-based decision algorithm is used to manage water distribution into a parallel ponds network and achieve good quality of service and minimum water-loss. The algorithm is tested in a simulation software reproducing the major dynamics of the system for different scenarios. While not taking into account some of the non-linearities and focusing on feasibility, the algorithm shows interesting results under ideal flow control conditions especially regarding convergence. Robustness is estimated by Monte Carlo evaluation of the effects of delay uncertainty, and the strategy maintains convergence.