Development of the Expert System for Centralized Dam Controling

Abstract

During a flood, it is very difficult to control a dam properly. In this paper, the authors propose the practical expert system to support centraized dam control using the artificial intelligence which contains a fuzzy inference engine. The system consists of twosupporting functions, i. e. one is to make a schedule of dam release and the other to decidea gate opening of next step. Asking veteran dam operators their know-how of dam operation, the structure of knowledge base has been determined. Part of the functions have been tested with the real data concerning the dams on Nahari River in Shikoku-Island. The results of inference approximately coincide the real operations, and are satisfactory.