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At the present time there is a high pressure toward the improvement of all the production processes. Those
improvements can be sensed in several directions in particular those that involve energy efficiency. The definition
of tight energy efficiency improvement policies is transversal to several operational areas ranging from
industry to public services. As can be expected, agricultural processes are not immune to this tendency. This
statement takes more severe contours when dealing with indoor productions where it is required to artificially
control the climate inside the building or a partial growing zone. Regarding the latter, this paper presents an
innovative system that improves energy efficiency of a trees growing platform. This new system requires the
control of both a water pump and a gas heating system based on information provided by an array of sensors.
In order to do this, a multi-input, multi-output regulator was implemented by means of a Fuzzy logic
control strategy. Presented results show that it is possible to simultaneously keep track of the desired growing
temperature set-point while maintaining actuators stress within an acceptable range.
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Keywords
Renewable energy Fuzzy controller Agriculture
Citation
Dias, J.; Coelho, J.P.; Gonçalves, José (2015). Fuzzy control of a water pump for an agricultural plant growth system. In 7th International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence (IJCCI 2015). Las Vegas. ISBN 978-989-758-157-1