With growing food demand worldwide, controlled environment agriculture is an important
strategy for crop production year-round. One of the important types of controlled environment …

Greenhouse technology is an opportune tool for increasing crop yields through the accurate
adjustment of internal climate growth conditions such as temperature, humidity, light …

Milk is one of the important dairy foods, which forms an essential building block in the feed
formulation for infant and growing children, and adults alike. However, the quality of the final …

Optimal placement of sensors in protected cultivation systems to maximize monitoring and
control capabilities can guide effective decision-making toward achieving the highest levels …

Traditional PID controllers are widely used in industrial applications due to their simple
computational architecture. However, the gain parameters of this simple computing …

This paper presents a novel variable stiffness actuator based on a rocker-linked epicyclic
gear train (REGT-VSA). The stiffness adjustment principle of the actuator is to change the …

In order to solve the problems of difficult control, poor stability, and low control precision in
complex autonomous non‐linear systems, and some sensors have non‐linear errors in …

In residential and commercial buildings, thermostat controllers have been typically utilized to
maintain room temperature near desired set-point. Recently, advanced computing and …

There are some characteristics of a Permanent Magnet Linear Synchronous Motor (PMLSM)
such as nonlinearity, strong coupling, and multi-control variables, etc. The traditional …

Energy conservation, environmental protection, and intelligence are topics of interest in
intelligent buildings. However, the energy requirement of various electrical equipment in …