Optimal Real-Time Pump and Irrigation Scheduling for Center-Pivot Sprinkler Systems.

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Center-pivot farms located on major river systems generally pump water from the surface source and convey it through a pressurized pipe network to the pivots. Booster pump stations may be placed in the system to add necessary head for water delivery to the pivots. Attempts to improve pump and irrigation scheduling must make sure that soil moisture levels are maintained within desired limits for favorable crop growth. A soil water balance model and a branching pipe network hydraulics analysis model are therefore necessary for simulating system behavior and estimating pumping costs. The objective of this study is to develop a dynamic irrigation scheduling algorithm for achieving minimum pumping cost over a billing period, object to maintaining optimum crop production and adequate system delivery pressures. After investigation of several optimization methods, dynamic programming successive approximations (DPSA) is selected as the best approach to solving this problem. Feasibility in sched

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