Systems Engineering for Irrigation Systems: Successes and Challenges
| Authors: | Mareels Iven, University of Melbourne, Australia
Weyer Erik, University of Melbourne, Australia
Ooi Su Ki, University of Melbourne, Australia
Cantoni Michael, University of Melbourne, Australia
Li Yuping, University of Melbourne, Australia
Nair Girish, University of Melbourne, Australia |
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| Topic: | 8.1 Control in Agriculture |
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| Session: | Irrigation Systems: Engineering Successes and Chalenges |
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| Keywords: | large scale systems, irrigation systems, system identifcation, control, SCADA |
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Abstract
In Australia gravity fed irrigation systems are critical infrastructure essential to agricultural production and export. By supplementing these large scale civil engineering systems with an appropriate information infrastructure,sensors, actuators and a communication network it is feasible to use systems engineering ideas to improve the exploitation of the irrigation system. This paper reports how classical ideas from system identification and control can be used to automate irrigation systems to deliver a near on-demand water supply with vastly improved overall distribution efficiency.
