Otro
An Optimal Control Framework for Resources Management in Agriculture
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Conference Papers in Mathematics, v. 2013, p. 1-15, 2013.
2314-4777
ISSN2314-4777-2013-2013-01-15.pdf
3638688119433520
Autor
Lobo Pereira, Fernando
Fontes, Fernando ArmÉnio
Ferreira, Maria Margarida
Pinho, Maria Do RosÁrio
Oliveira, Vilma Alves
Costa, Eduardo
Silva, Geraldo Nunes
Resumen
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.