A Framework for the Sustainable Control and Optimization of Resources in Agriculture

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2019

Authors

Fernando Lobo Pereira (Author) FEUP; Ismael Pena (Author) Other; Geraldo Nunes Silva (Author) Other

Conference proceedings International

Title: Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

Pages: 2344-2349

58th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, CDC 2019

11 December 2019 through 13 December 2019

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Authenticus ID: P-00R-YJ2

DOI: 10.1109/cdc40024.2019.9029999

Abstract (EN): This article concerns the issue of optimizing strategies of resources management in Agriculture. The increasing human population, and the anthropogenic environmental impacts resulting from the current agricultural food production practice raise tremendous challenges as the latter constitutes a huge threat to the overarching goal of eliminating hunger from the Earth's face. The contribution of this article consists in showing the stability and convergence of a bi-level optimization based control architecture to de-conflict the short-term profit-seeking goals of each agricultural production unit with the long-term goal of attaining the collective environmental equilibrium required to preserve the necessary food production efficiency level. Given the complexity of any realistic scenario, we consider a very simple context clarifying the core mathematical issues of a bi-level control architecture previously proposed by the authors that, under reasonable assumptions, generates control strategies ensuring the asymptotic convergence to an environmentally healthy equilibrium while ensuring the economic (and, thus, social) short term sustainability.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 6