An Optimal Control Framework for Resources Management in Agriculture. (23rd September 2013)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Lobo Pereira, Fernando; Fontes, Fernando Arménio; Ferreira, Maria Margarida; Pinho, Maria do Rosário; Oliveira, Vilma Alves; Costa, Eduardo; Silva, Geraldo Nunes
• Other Names: Frederico Gastão S. F. Academic Editor.; Martins Natália Academic Editor.; Torres Delfim F. M. Academic Editor.; Zaslavski Alexander J. Academic Editor.
• Is Part Of: Conference papers in energy. Volume 2013(2013)
• Publication Date: 2013-09-23
• Subjects: Power resources -- Periodicals; Power resources; Periodicals; Electronic journals; 333.79
• DOI: 10.1155/2013/769598
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2314-582X

Abstract

Abstract : 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.