CMWRS22
Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci n. 32
September 22nd and 23rd, 2022
September 22nd and 23rd, 2022
Sommario
The 2nd IFAC Workshop on Control Methods for Water Resource Systems will take place in Milan on September 22nd and 23rd, 2022.
Andrea Castelletti, Deib Full Professor, will serve as Co-Chair & Academic Editor.
Water resources systems are built and managed to support irrigation, ecosystems, transport, local communities, and social amenities and will face substantial challenges in the future due to climate and social change resulting in sea level rise, more intense precipitation events, consequent augmented risk of flooding and increased demand for water resources for the agricultural and drinking sector.
On the other hand, water resources systems, in particular urban water networks, are becoming increasingly sensed and interconnected revealing new potential for efficient management of this resource. Therefore, evaluation of opportunities and constraints around the management of water resources systems requires an integrated systems approach that takes into account the fundamental drivers, impacts, and multi-purpose nature of the system of interest. These systems are hugely complex: they are nonlinear, affected by long-term dependencies and extreme events, providing services to stakeholders with competing interests.
Engineers and researchers working in the area of control theory can find many challenges here. As social and environmental conditions will change in the future, also affecting the proper functioning of systems of crucial interest to society, adaptive and robust management techniques are needed to properly manage those systems in the future, also considering health and inequality issues, especially in countries where those are relevant.
This workshop aims to provide an environment where researchers, practitioners, and representatives of industry applying control methods to water resources management can meet, exchange ideas, and present innovative solutions.
Contributions are sought that:
Andrea Castelletti, Deib Full Professor, will serve as Co-Chair & Academic Editor.
Water resources systems are built and managed to support irrigation, ecosystems, transport, local communities, and social amenities and will face substantial challenges in the future due to climate and social change resulting in sea level rise, more intense precipitation events, consequent augmented risk of flooding and increased demand for water resources for the agricultural and drinking sector.
On the other hand, water resources systems, in particular urban water networks, are becoming increasingly sensed and interconnected revealing new potential for efficient management of this resource. Therefore, evaluation of opportunities and constraints around the management of water resources systems requires an integrated systems approach that takes into account the fundamental drivers, impacts, and multi-purpose nature of the system of interest. These systems are hugely complex: they are nonlinear, affected by long-term dependencies and extreme events, providing services to stakeholders with competing interests.
Engineers and researchers working in the area of control theory can find many challenges here. As social and environmental conditions will change in the future, also affecting the proper functioning of systems of crucial interest to society, adaptive and robust management techniques are needed to properly manage those systems in the future, also considering health and inequality issues, especially in countries where those are relevant.
This workshop aims to provide an environment where researchers, practitioners, and representatives of industry applying control methods to water resources management can meet, exchange ideas, and present innovative solutions.
Contributions are sought that:
- study present and future methods for modelling and identification of water resources systems;
- examine planning and control methods that allow for multi-purpose use, for instance, the management of lakes and reservoirs;
- modelling and control of water distribution networks;
- present case studies of the application of innovative modelling and control methods to water resource systems.
The National Organizing Committee is made up of Matteo Giuliani, Deib Assistant Professor - Politecnico di Milano (IT) as Chair, Simone Formentin, Deib Associate Professor - Politecnico di Milano (IT), as Co-Chair, Federico Giudici, RSE - Ricerca sul Sistema Energetico SpA (IT), as Vice-Chair from Industry, Matteo Sangiorgio, Deib Research Assistant - Politecnico di Milano (IT), and Angelo Carlino, Deib Research Assistant - Politecnico di Milano (IT).
For further information, please, visit the official website of the event.
