15th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  July 21-26 2002     Lyon     France  
   

ECAI-2002 Conference Paper

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DAI-DEPUR: An Environmental Decision Support System for the control and supervison of Municipal WasteWater Treatment Plants

Ulises Cortes, Ignasi Rodriguez-Roda, Miquel Sanchez-Marre, Joaquim Comas, Christian Cortes, Manel Poch

Integrated operation of Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plants is still far from being solved. A reasonable proposal should link advanced and robust control algorithms to knowledge-based techniques, allocating the detailed engineering to numerical computations, while delegating the logical analysis and reasoning to supervisory intelligent systems. This paper describes the development and implementation of a Environmental Decision Support System to supervise and control the operation of a real Wastewater Treatment Plant. The system integrates different reasoning modules, overcoming the limitations in the use of each single technique, while providing an agent based architecture with additional modularity and independence. It is structured into five separated levels: data gathering, diagnosis, decision support, planning and action. The different tasks of the system are performed in a seven-step cycle: data gathering and update, diagnosis, supervision, prediction, communication, actuation, and evaluation phase. In spite of certain reservations of the scientific community about the use of these techniques, the system is successfully performing real-time support to the operation of the Granollers facility since September 1999. Results of the first four-month validation period are shown and discussed. An example of the system behavior is also shown in the paper. The conclusions indicate the key steps which are necessary to transfer the system to another facility.

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Citation: Ulises Cortes, Ignasi Rodriguez-Roda, Miquel Sanchez-Marre, Joaquim Comas, Christian Cortes, Manel Poch: DAI-DEPUR: An Environmental Decision Support System for the control and supervison of Municipal WasteWater Treatment Plants. In F. van Harmelen (ed.): ECAI2002, Proceedings of the 15th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IOS Press, Amsterdam, 2002, pp.603-607.


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ECAI-2002 is organised by the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI) and hosted by the Université Claude Bernard and INSA, Lyon, on behalf of Association Française pour l'Intelligence Artificielle.