Robert D. McAllister

Improving greenhouse fruit-production control by integrating reinforcement learning into short-horizon model predictive control

Bart van Laatum, Salim Msaad, Eldert J. van Henten, Robert D. McAllister, Sjoerd Boersma

Greenhouse fruit-production control aims to maximize the economic performance (fruit revenue minus operating costs) while operating within system constraints under external weather disturbances. Control methods need to balance the delayed economic benefit of fruit yield with curr…Read more