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Predictive Control Applied to a Solar Desalination Plant Connected to a Greenhouse with Daily Variation of Irrigation Water Demand [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The water deficit in the Mediterranean area is a known matter severely affecting agriculture. One way to avoid the aquifers’ exploitation is to supply water to crops by using thermal desalination processes.
Berenguel Soria, Manuel   +5 more
core   +3 more sources

Smart Irrigation Controllers: How Do Soil Moisture Sensor (SMS) Irrigation Controllers Work?

open access: yesEDIS, 2009
Revised! AE437, a 5-page illustrated fact sheet by Michael D. Dukes, Mary Shedd, and Bernard Cardenas-Lailhacar, is part of the Smart Irrigation Controllers series. It describes how soil moisture sensor systems work, rules for installation, setting the sensor threshold, and programming the irrigation timer. Includes references.
Michael D. Dukes   +2 more
openaire   +6 more sources

Robust Proportional Integral Control of Water Level in an Irrigation Main Canal

open access: yesRevista Cubana de Ingeniería, 2015
Nowadays In this paper, the design of a robust PI controller for effective level control in the second poolof the irrigation main canal Güira de Melena is developed.
Ybrain Hernández López   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Governance of a complex system: water [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This paper sets out a complex adaptive systems view of water governance. Overview Fresh water is a life - enabling resource as well as the source of spiritual, social and economic wellbeing and development.
Elizabeth Eppel
core   +1 more source

Development of a Neural Network-Based Controller for a Greenhouse Irrigation System at Laboratory Scale

open access: yesAgriculture
Water scarcity and inefficient irrigation practices are major challenges for modern protected agriculture systems. This study designs, implements, and experimentally validates a neural network-based irrigation control strategy in an industrial ...
Cesar Gerardo-Parra   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Human-in-the-Loop Model Predictive Control of an Irrigation Canal [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Until now, advanced model-based control techniques have been predominantly employed to control problems that are relatively straightforward to model. Many systems with complex dynamics or containing sophisticated sensing and actuation elements can be ...
Camacho, Eduardo F.   +4 more
core  

Modeling of Automatic Sprinkler Irrigation Process Using Finite State Machine (FSM) and Proportional Integral Derivative (PID) Controller

open access: yesUniversal Journal of Engineering Science, 2019
In this paper, the real-time automatic irrigation system was designed to supply water to the root zone of plant only when soil moisture content goes below a certain level known as critical moisture content.
Anamekere Ime Jacob   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Automatic programmers for solid set sprinkler irrigation systems [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
6 Pags., 1 Tabl., 2 Figs.Introduction: The application of new technologies to the control and automation of irrigation processes is becoming very important in the last decade. Although automation of irrigation execution (irrigation programmers) is now
Cavero Campo, José   +4 more
core  

Robust controller for an open irrigation canal prototype

open access: yesIndonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2019
A Management and control of irrigation canals is a very important task whether for irrigation of agricultural land, to provide clean water, or to avoid floods.
N. Merabti   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

An Embedded Solar‐Powered Irrigation System Based on a Cascaded Fuzzy Logic Controller

open access: yesAsian journal of control, 2019
This study examines the automatization of irrigation tasks of solar photovoltaic water pumping systems (SPVWPS) in greenhouse applications. A prototype of an embedded control system has been developed for SPVWPS battery‐coupled architectures.
Abdelouahed Selmani   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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