The effectiveness of greenhouse control can be improved by the application of model based intelligent control. Such control requires a good model of the greenhouse. For a large variety of industrial or recreational greenhouses the derivation of an analytical model is not feasible therefore black-box modeling has to be applied. Identification of black-box models requires large amount of data fro...

The paper presents a service robot for health monitoring and localized chemical, drugs and fertilisers dispensing to plants in greenhouses. The robot and its end-effectors have been conceived and designed specifically oriented to the served environment and tasks. A virtual prototype has been realized.

AURORA has been conceived in order to substitute hard and unhealthy human work inside greenhouses by means of an autonomous mobile robot outfitted with appropriate sensors and operation devices. Emphasis has been put in the development of a new robotic platform specifically designed for greenhouse tasks, governed by a control architecture that supports both autonomous navigation and shared huma...

The move towards a de-carbonised world, driven partly by climate science and the business opportunities it offers, will need promotion of environmentally friendly alternatives, if an acceptable stabilisation level atmospheric carbon dioxide is to be achieved. use natural resources that have not any air pollution or greenhouse gases provides comfortable coexistence human, livestock, plants. gree...

Firstly, this article discusses the greenhouse engineering situation in three geographic areas which are relevant in the field of protected cultivation: Northern Asia, The Netherlands and the Mediterranean. For each area, the prevailing greenhouse type and equipment is briefly described. Secondly, the main technological constraints are pointed out and finally the research directions are discuss...