Reinforcement learning for crop management support: Review, prospects and challenges

R Gautron, OA Maillard, P Preux, M Corbeels… - … and Electronics in …, 2022 - Elsevier
Reinforcement learning (RL), including multi-armed bandits, is a branch of machine learning
that deals with the problem of sequential decision-making in uncertain and unknown …

[HTML][HTML] Current applications and potential future directions of reinforcement learning-based Digital Twins in agriculture

G Goldenits, K Mallinger, S Raubitzek… - Smart Agricultural …, 2024 - Elsevier
Digital Twins have gained attention in various industries by creating virtual replicas of real-
world systems through data collection and machine learning. These replicas are used to run …

[HTML][HTML] Energy-efficient ai-based control of semi-closed greenhouses leveraging robust optimization in deep reinforcement learning

A Ajagekar, NS Mattson, F You - Advances in applied energy, 2023 - Elsevier
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Reinforcement learning versus model predictive control on greenhouse climate control

B Morcego, W Yin, S Boersma, E Van Henten… - … and Electronics in …, 2023 - Elsevier
The greenhouse system plays a crucial role to ensure an adequate supply of fresh food for
the growing global population. However, maintaining an optimal growing climate within a …

Robust model-based reinforcement learning for autonomous greenhouse control

W Zhang, X Cao, Y Yao, Z An… - Asian Conference on …, 2021 - proceedings.mlr.press
Due to the high efficiency and less weather dependency, autonomous greenhouses provide
an ideal solution to meet the increasing demand for fresh food. However, managers are …

Optimizing crop yield and reducing energy consumption in greenhouse control using PSO-MPC algorithm

L Gong, M Yu, S Kollias - Algorithms, 2023 - mdpi.com
In this study, we present a novel smart greenhouse control algorithm that optimizes crop
yield while minimizing energy consumption costs. To achieve this, we relied on both a …

Energy-saving control algorithm of Venlo greenhouse skylight and wet curtain fan based on reinforcement learning with soft action mask

L Chen, L Xu, R Wei - Agriculture, 2023 - mdpi.com
Due to the complex coupling of greenhouse environments, a number of challenges have
been encountered in the research of automatic control in Venlo greenhouses. Most …

[HTML][HTML] Rule-based year-round model predictive control of greenhouse tomato cultivation: A simulation study

D Xu, L Xu, S Wang, M Wang, J Ma, C Shi - Information Processing in …, 2024 - Elsevier
Maximizing profit is usually the objective of optimal control of greenhouse cultivation.
However, due to the problem of “the curse of dimensionality”, the global optimization of …

Deep reinforcement learning based automatic control in semi-closed greenhouse systems

A Ajagekar, F You - IFAC-PapersOnLine, 2022 - Elsevier
This work proposes a novel deep reinforcement learning (DRL) based control framework for
greenhouse climate control. This framework utilizes a neural network to approximate state …

A simulator-based planning framework for optimizing autonomous greenhouse control strategy

Z An, X Cao, Y Yao, W Zhang, L Li, Y Wang… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - ojs.aaai.org
The rapidly growing global population presents challenges and demands for efficient
production of healthy fresh food. Autonomous greenhouse equipped with standard sensors …