A Primer Discussion for the Application of Automatic Control to Assist Coastal Land-Water Management in the Mekong Delta

摘要

Effective coastal land management is important to the livelihood of its local inhabitant. This challenge is especially important in developing nations. In this paper, we report our effort toward using automatic control to aid the coastal land-water management issues in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam. The report focuses on augmenting the governing dynamics of the existing VRSAP simulation of the MK Delta hydrology such that it would be manageable by a feedback control loop. Steady state linearization and analysis of the governing equations is performed in the general term of the parameters. This technique makes obvious the relationship of each parameter to the formulation of the control problem allowing the engineer to wisely choose an effective parameter for model calibration. An adaptive scheme is then developed to calibrate the chosen control parameter of lateral inflow. Initial experiments from a artificially generated data shows promising results.