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Optimal Control of Greenhouse Cultivation (Hardcover)
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Optimal Control of Greenhouse Cultivation (Hardcover)
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Greenhouse control system manufacturers produce equipment and
software with hundreds of settings and, while they hold training
courses on how to adjust these settings, there is as yet no
integrated instruction on when or why. Despite rapid growth in the
greenhouse industry, growers are still faced with a multitude of
variables and no unifying framework from which to choose the best
option. Consolidating 30 years of research in greenhouse climate
control, Optimal Control of Greenhouse Cultivation utilizes
mathmatical models to incorporate the wealth of scientific
knowledge into a feasible optimal control methodology for
greenhouse crop cultivation. Discussing several different paradigms
on greenhouse climate control, it integrates the current research
into physical modeling of the greenhouse climate in response to
heating, ventilation, and other control variables with the
biological modeling of variables such as plant evapo-transpiration
and growth. Key topics include state-space greenhouse and crop
modeling needed for the design of integrated optimal controllers
that exploit rather than mitigate outside weather conditions,
especially sunlight, given widely different time scales. The book
reviews classical rule-based and multivariable feedback controllers
in comparison with the optimal hierarchical control paradigm. It
considers real and hypothetical examples including lettuce, tomato,
and solar greenhouses and examines experimental results of
greenhouse climate control using optimal control software. The book
concludes with a discussion of open issues as well as future
perspectives and challenges. Providing a tool to automatically
determine the most economical controls and settings for their
operation, this much-needed book relieves growers of unnecessary
control tasks, and allows them to achieve the best possible
trade-off between short term savings and optimal harvest yield.
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