Robust climate control of a greenhouse equipped with variable-speed fans and a variable-pressure fogging system

Biosystems Engineering

Volumn 110, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 153-167

  Linker, Raphael ^a   Kacira, Murat ^b   Arbel, Avraham ^c  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CONTROL; CONTROLLERS; ENTHALPY; FOG DISPERSAL; GREENHOUSES; ROBUST CONTROL; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CONTROLLED SYSTEM; GREENHOUSE CLIMATES; QUANTITATIVE FEEDBACK THEORY; ROBUST CONTROL METHODS; TRACKING ERRORS; VARIABLE-SPEED FANS; VENTILATION RATE;

HUMIDITY CONTROL;

EID: 80052954002     PISSN: 15375110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2011.07.010     Document Type: Article

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