Modeling and Control of Greenhouse Crop Growth (Hardcover, 2015 ed.)

A discussion of challenges related to the modeling and control of greenhouse crop growth, this book presents state-of-the-art answers to those challenges. The authors model the subsystems involved in successful greenhouse control using different techniques and show how the models obtained can be exploited for simulation or control design; they suggest ideas for the development of physical and/or black-box models for this purpose. Strategies for the control of climate- and irrigation-related variables are brought forward. The uses of PID control and feedforward compensators, both widely used in commercial tools, are summarized. The benefits of advanced control techniques-event-based, robust, and predictive control, for example-are used to improve on the performance of those basic methods. A hierarchical control architecture is developed governed by a high-level multiobjective optimization approach rather than traditional constrained optimization and artificial intelligence techniques. Reference trajectories are found for diurnal and nocturnal temperatures (climate-related setpoints) and electrical conductivity (fertirrigation-related setpoints). The objectives are to maximize profit, fruit quality, and water-use efficiency, these being encouraged by current international rules. Illustrative practical results selected from those obtained in an industrial greenhouse during the last eight years are shown and described. The text of the book is complemented by the use of illustrations, tables and real examples which are helpful in understanding the material. Modeling and Control of Greenhouse Crop Growth will be of interest to industrial engineers, academic researchers and graduates from agricultural, chemical, and process-control backgrounds.

General

Imprint:	Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Advances in Industrial Control
Release date:	November 2014
First published:	2015
Authors:	Francisco Rodriguez • Manuel Berenguel • Jose Luis Guzman • Armando Ramirez-Arias
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	250
Edition:	2015 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-3-319-11133-9
Categories:	Books > Professional & Technical > Agriculture & farming > Agricultural science Books > Professional & Technical > Mechanical engineering & materials > Production engineering > General Books > Professional & Technical > Electronics & communications engineering > Electronics engineering > Automatic control engineering > General
LSN:	3-319-11133-7
Barcode:	9783319111339

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