<i>Teamwork without talking:</i> distributed system estimates maintain approximately centralized control of smart urban drainage systems during communications outages.

ABSTRACT: Real-time control of urban drainage systems (UDS) can reduce flood risk while enhancing water quality. However, internet-connected valves and weirs may become a liability during communications outages. Given that severe storms often cause both flooding and communications failures, it is critical that smart systems cope well with communications outages during these events. We propose a method to maintain approximately centralized predictive control of a UDS under intermittent communication by hosting approximations of the total system's dynamics and states on each networked microcontroller. This allows individual microcontrollers to act from an imperfect understanding of the total system, even when they have not communicated with the central server for several days. We show robustness to co

SUBMITTER: Dantzer TA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11648808 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature