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Author Rodríguez, Francisco, author

Title Modeling and control of greenhouse crop growth / Francisco Rodríguez, Manuel Berenguel, José Luis Guzmán, Armando Ramírez-Arias
Published Cham : Springer, [2015]
©2015

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Description 1 online resource (xxix, 250 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Series Advances in Industrial Control, 1430-9491
Advances in industrial control.
Contents Introduction -- The Greenhouse Dynamical System -- Climate and Irrigation Control -- Crop Growth Control -- Advice and Suggestions for Greenhouse Technicians and Producers -- Appendix
Summary 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. Advances in Industrial Control aims to report and encourage the transfer of technology in control engineering. The rapid development of control technology has an impact on all areas of the control discipline. The series offers an opportunity for researchers to present an extended exposition of new work in all aspects of industrial control
Analysis engineering
industrie
industry
controle
control
landbouw
agriculture
Engineering (General)
Techniek (algemeen)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed November 24, 2014)
Subject Greenhouses -- Automatic control
Greenhouse management.
Agricultural science.
Production engineering.
Automatic control engineering.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- General.
Greenhouse management
Form Electronic book
Author Berenguel, Manuel, author
Guzmán, José Luis, author
Ramírez-Arias, Armando, author
ISBN 9783319111346
3319111345
3319111337
9783319111339