A discussion of challenges related to the modeling and control of greenhouse crop growth?? this book presents state-of-the-art answers to those challenges. The authors model the subsystems involved in successful greenhouse control using different techniques and show how the models obtained can be exploited for simulation or control design; they suggest ideas for the development of physical and/or black-box models for this purpose.

Strategies for the control of climate- and irrigation-related variables are brought forward. The uses of PID control and feedforward compensators?? both widely used in commercial tools?? are summarized. The benefits of advanced control techniques??event-based?? robust?? and predictive control?? for example??are used to improve on the performance of those basic methods.

A hierarchical control architecture is developed governed by a high-level multiobjective optimization approach rather than traditional const