Modern agriculture is nowadays subject to regulations in terms of quality and environmental
impact and thus it is a field where the application of automatic control techniques has …

Irrigation systems are as old as man itself since agriculture is the foremost occupation of
civilized humanity. To irrigate large areas of plants is an onerous job. In order to overcome …

The idea of irrigation is not new, irrigation stems as far back as the Egyptians and probably
further in unrecorded history. Even the idea of automated irrigation is not new, mankind has …

In this work, simple tuning rules for feedforward compensators were applied to design a
control strategy to regulate the inside air temperature of a greenhouse during daytime by …

Today agriculture is changing in response to the requirements of modern society, where
ensuring food supply through practices such as water conservation, reduction of …

The paper presents a solution for an irrigation controller based on the fuzzy-logic
methodology. First, it describes the general problem of irrigation. Then, it discusses the …

The paper describes a simplified dynamic model of a greenhouse tomato crop, and the
optimal control problem related to the seasonal benefit of the grower. A HJB formalism is …

Sustainable energy development concept requires and maintains multiple linkages among
energy production, energy consumption, human well-being, and environmental quality …

This paper presents the development of feedforward controllers for greenhouse climate
control. These controllers are mainly based on physical laws and measured data and are …

This article presents a comparison of commercial and model based predictive control
strategies aimed at optimizing efficiency of classical heating systems used in greenhouse …