Logical Consensus-based Control for Water Distribution System with Physical Faults

Abstract

This paper proposes a consensus-based control strategy for a Water Distribution System (WDS) which enables the system to continuously supply the demand minimizing the impact of faulty equipment within the WDS facilities. The convergence in the control system is achieved by utilizing the concept of cellular automata. Simulation of the system using MATLAB shows the effectiveness of the proposed method with convergence time is achieved on the 7th step. The method proposed in this work is scalable and applicable to any large scale of WDS configurations.