Game Theory Based Distributed Model Predictive Control for a Hydro-Power Valley Control

Hydro-power valleys are large scale systems used to power energy production. The stored water is also used for navigation and agriculture purposes. Recently the control of hydro-power valleys has been formulated as a centralized optimal control problem. However, the scale of the systems make unfeasible real time implementations for centralized controllers. In this work we propose the use of the game theory to formulate a distributed model predictive control scheme to control an hydro-power valley. The proposed control scheme is tested by using a power reference tracking scenario as a test-bed.