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 …

In recent decades, climate change and a shortage of resources have brought about the
need for technology in agriculture. Farmers have been forced to use information and …

The rapid evolution of communication technology has spurred a revolution in many
domains, which makes life more comfortable and convenient. In order to meet the surge in …

The greenhouse sector accounts for the largest portion of total final energy consumption in
agriculture in most countries. One efficient way to minimize the total energy consumption in …

As greenhouses are being widely adopted worldwide, it is important to improve the energy
efficiency of the control systems while accurately regulating their indoor climate to realize …

The sustainable exploitation of natural resources is nowadays an important challenge for
governments and institutions, considering the expected increase of the world population. In …

Optimization problems relating to wireless sensor network planning, design, deployment
and operation often give rise to multi-objective optimization formulations where multiple …

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 …

Greenhouse systems consume lots of energy, water and carbon dioxide (CO 2) to provide a
suitable growth environment for crops. Due to the problems of operation mode, some …

This paper presents a hybrid control strategy, combining Radial Basis Function (RBF)
network with conventional proportional, integral, and derivative (PID) controllers, for the …