Real Time Control of Ottawa’s Wastewater Collection Systems: Added Value and Operational Benefits beyond Achieving CSO Control Objectives

In order to comply with effluent standards, wastewater operators need to avoid hydraulic overloading of the wastewater treatment plant (WWTP), as this can result in the washout of activated sludge from secondary settling tanks. Hydraulic overloading can occur in a systematic way, for instance when sewer network connections are extended without increasing the WWTP's capacity accordingly. This study demonstrates the use of rule-based real-time control (RTC) to reduce the load to the WWTP while restricting the overall overflow volume of the sewer system to a minimum. Further, it shows the added value of RTC despite the limited availability of monitoring data and information on the catchment through a parsimonious simulation approach, using relocation of spatial system boundaries and creating required input data through reverse modelling. Focus was hereby on the accurate modelling of pump hydraulics and control. Finally, two different methods of global sensitivity analysis were employed to verify the influence of parameters of both the model and the implemented control algorithm. Both methods show the importance of good knowledge of the system properties, but that monitoring errors play a minor role.

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The Analysis of Accounting Information Activities Blending SOA

Advanced Materials Research ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.267.35 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 267 ◽

pp. 35-38

Author(s):

Yan Fang Niu

Keyword(s):

Knowledge Management ◽

Real Time ◽

Value Chain ◽

Process Integration ◽

Accounting Information ◽

Added Value ◽

Accurate Information ◽

Real Time Control ◽

Financial Reports ◽

Time Control

Accounting value chain can be considered as composed by the five accounting information activities: capturing economic events, accounting business process integration, real-time financial reports, accounting real-time control, accounting information knowledge management. How to fully reflect the added-value of these activities is the key to produce the real-time, accurate information. This paper illustrates these accounting information activities blending the emerging SOA.

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Modelling and Control of Mechatronics Lines Served by Complex Autonomous Systems

Sensors ◽

10.3390/s19153266 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 19 (15) ◽

pp. 3266 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Dragomir ◽

Mincă ◽

Dragomir ◽

Filipescu

Keyword(s):

Petri Nets ◽

Real Time ◽

Autonomous Systems ◽

The Other ◽

Added Value ◽

Control Procedure ◽

Real Time Control ◽

Planning And Scheduling ◽

Time Control ◽

Wide Range

The aim of this paper is to reverse an assembly line, to be able to perform disassembly, using two complex autonomous systems (CASs). The disassembly is functioning only in case of quality default identified in the final product. The CASs are wheeled mobile robots (WMRs) equipped with robotic manipulators (RMs), working in parallel or collaboratively. The reversible assembly/disassembly mechatronics line (A/DML) assisted by CASs has a specific typology and is modelled by specialized hybrid instruments belonging to the Petri nets class, precisely synchronized hybrid Petri nets (SHPN). The need of this type of models is justified by the necessity of collaboration between the A/DML and CASs, both having characteristics and physical constraints that should be considered and to make all systems compatible. Firstly, the paper proposes the planning and scheduling of tasks necessary in modelling stage as well as in real time control. Secondly, two different approaches are proposed, related to CASs collaboration: a parallel approach with two CASs have simultaneous actions: one is equipped with robotic manipulator, used for manipulation, and the other is used for transporting. This approach is correlated with industrial A/D manufacturing lines where have to transport and handle weights in a wide range of variation. The other is a collaborative approach, A/DML is served by two CASs used for manipulation and transporting, both having simultaneous movements, following their own trajectories. One will assist the disassembly in even, while the other in odd workstations. The added value of this second approach consists in the optimization of a complete disassembly cycle. Thirdly, it is proposed in the paper the real time control of mechatronics line served by CASs working in parallel, based on the SHPN model. The novelty of the control procedure consists in the use of the synchronization signals, in absence of the visual servoing systems, for a precise positioning of the CASs serving the reversible mechatronics line.

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A Real Time Control Architecture for Continuously Managing Patients in a Care Unit

Methods of Information in Medicine ◽

10.1055/s-0038-1634619 ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 34 (05) ◽

pp. 475-488

Author(s):

B. Seroussi ◽

J. F. Boisvieux ◽

V. Morice

Keyword(s):

Real Time ◽

Linear Time ◽

Treatment Plan ◽

Control Architecture ◽

Real Time Control ◽

Time Representation ◽

Time Control ◽

Continuous Support ◽

Definition Of ◽

Computerized System

Abstract:The monitoring and treatment of patients in a care unit is a complex task in which even the most experienced clinicians can make errors. A hemato-oncology department in which patients undergo chemotherapy asked for a computerized system able to provide intelligent and continuous support in this task. One issue in building such a system is the definition of a control architecture able to manage, in real time, a treatment plan containing prescriptions and protocols in which temporal constraints are expressed in various ways, that is, which supervises the treatment, including controlling the timely execution of prescriptions and suggesting modifications to the plan according to the patient’s evolving condition. The system to solve these issues, called SEPIA, has to manage the dynamic, processes involved in patient care. Its role is to generate, in real time, commands for the patient’s care (execution of tests, administration of drugs) from a plan, and to monitor the patient’s state so that it may propose actions updating the plan. The necessity of an explicit time representation is shown. We propose using a linear time structure towards the past, with precise and absolute dates, open towards the future, and with imprecise and relative dates. Temporal relative scales are introduced to facilitate knowledge representation and access.

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