An Optimal Control Framework for Resources Management in Agriculture

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2013

Authors

Fernando Lobo Pereira (Author) FEUP; Fontes, Fernando A C C (Author) FEUP; Margarida Ferreira (Author) FEUP; Pinho, MdR (Author) Other; Oliveira, VA (Author) Other; Costa, E (Author) Other; Silva, GN (Author) Other

Journal

Title: Conference Papers in Mathematics

Vol. 17

Pages: 1-15

ISSN: 2314-5854

Publisher: HINDAWI PUBLISHING CORPORATION

Scientific classification

FOS: Engineering and technology

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-00H-ZK1

DOI: 10.1155/2013/769598

Abstract (EN): <jats:p>An optimal control framework to support the management and control of resources in a wide range of problems arising in agriculture is discussed. Lessons extracted from past research on the weed control problem and a survey of a vast body of pertinent literature led to the specification of key requirements to be met by a suitable optimization framework. The proposed layered control structure¿including planning, coordination, and execution layers¿relies on a set of nested optimization processes of which an ¿infinite horizon¿ Model Predictive Control scheme plays a key role in planning and coordination. Some challenges and recent results on the Pontryagin Maximum Principle for infinite horizon optimal control are also discussed.</jats:p>

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific