As climate change and resource scarcity threaten global food security, greenhouse systems are becoming critical for sustainable agriculture. Advanced control, such as Model Predictive control (MPC), effectively regula...
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As climate change and resource scarcity threaten global food security, greenhouse systems are becoming critical for sustainable agriculture. Advanced control, such as Model Predictive control (MPC), effectively regulates temperature, humidity, and CO 2 to enhance crop growth and resource efficiency. However, the widespread adoption of such advanced controlsystems is limited by their lack of interpretability, as growers struggle to understand complex control decisions, particularly during rapid environmental changes. In this work, a Natural Language Generation (NLG) interface has been developed to bridge this gap and transform MPC control decisions into clear, actionable explanations for greenhouse growers. This interface integrates Large Language Models (LLMs) with greenhouse controlsystems and mathematical constraints, providing a step toward making AI-driven agriculture more accessible. This integration addresses the need for interpretable AI systems in modern agricultural applications. The system allows growers to interact with the controlsystem, query decisions, and receive contextually relevant explanations through Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) mechanisms and instruction prompting techniques. The Adaptive RAG (ARAG) framework was evaluated using semantic similarity, information retrieval, and contextual relevance metrics, demonstrating a 12.1% improvement in BERTScore, over baseline methods. These results highlight the system's ability to deliver accurate, well-structured explanations without compromising control performance. By improving the interpretability and accessibility of AI-powered greenhouse automation, this research advances the development of sustainable greenhouse practices that can adapt to the challenges of climate change and resource scarcity. The proposed system represents a significant step toward transforming traditional greenhouse control into more interpretable solutions for modern agriculture.
High-density (HD) cultivation systems are a valuable alternative to improve the productivity of phototrophic microorganisms. They are designed to address the major challenges such as low cell densities, light attenuat...
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This paper presents a new early-lumping approach of feedforward control design for setpoint change scenarios applied to a tubular reactor modeled by a nonlinear parabolic diffusion-convection-reaction equation. The ap...
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This paper presents a new early-lumping approach of feedforward control design for setpoint change scenarios applied to a tubular reactor modeled by a nonlinear parabolic diffusion-convection-reaction equation. The approach is based on Galerkin's method to obtain a finite-dimensional model and on a recently developed approach to feedforward control design for nonlinear systems under input constraints. The considered finite-time transition between equilibrium points is treated as a two-point boundary value problem. Simulation results for different sets of model parameters illustrate the applicability of the approach
This paper deals with the mathematical modeling and the nonlinear control of an electrohydraulic closed-center power-steering system. The system under consideration is characterized by its high energetic efficiency at...
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This paper deals with the mathematical modeling and the nonlinear control of an electrohydraulic closed-center power-steering system. The system under consideration is characterized by its high energetic efficiency at a full electric power-steering functionality. Based on a nonlinear mathematical model of the system, a flatness-based controller for the servo actuator is designed. Afterwards, an interpretation of the overall steering controlsystem as a mechanical impedance matching problem yields a controller with good performance and robust behavior. Finally, measurement results on a test stand and in a test car show the usefulness of the proposed control approach.
The German Aerospace Center bundles its railway research in the long-term project “Next Generation Train” (NGT). The NGT is a high speed train concept in light-weight design and double-deck configuration. To reduce ...
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The German Aerospace Center bundles its railway research in the long-term project “Next Generation Train” (NGT). The NGT is a high speed train concept in light-weight design and double-deck configuration. To reduce wheel and rail wear and to enhance the passenger capacity, a mechatronic running gear with independently rotating wheels (IRW) is designed. This configuration requires an advanced control of the lateral dynamics in order to fully exploit the potential in minimizing wear and noise. In terms of a model-based control design, the controller performance highly depends on the estimated lateral position of the running gear relative to the track. In a practical environment it is difficult to directly measure this displacement of the wheel-pair. Therefore this article deals with the question which sensor configuration enables an appropriate estimation of the lateral displacement and is suitable for observer design. Hence, an observability analysis and an observer synthesis to estimate the lateral position for the nonlinear system of the 1:5 scaled hardware running gear is carried out. For validation purposes three estimators are implemented at the real-time environment of the testbed and the estimation errors of the observer configurations are compared.
Dynamic operation of anaerobic digestion plants requires advanced process monitoring and control. Different simplifications of the Anaerobic Digestion Model No. 1 (ADM1) have been proposed recently, which appear promi...
Dynamic operation of anaerobic digestion plants requires advanced process monitoring and control. Different simplifications of the Anaerobic Digestion Model No. 1 (ADM1) have been proposed recently, which appear promising for model-based process automation and state estimation. As a fundamental requirement, observability and identifiability of these models are analyzed in this work, which was pursued through algebraic and geometric analysis. Manual algebraic assessment was successful for small models such as the ADM1-R4 and simplified versions of the ADM1-R3, which were derived in this context. However, for larger model classes the algebraic approach showed to be insufficient. By contrast, the geometric approach, implemented in the STRIKE GOLDD toolbox, allowed to show observability for more complex models (including ADM1-R4 and ADM1-R3), employing two independent algorithms. The present study lays the groundwork for state observer design, parameter estimation and advanced control resting upon ADM1-based models.
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