Control Engineering Practice • Vol 147
Learning-based multi-agent MPC for irrigation scheduling
March 2024 • Bernard T. Agyeman, Mohamed Naouri, Willemijn M. Appels, Jinfeng Liu, Sirish L. Shah
Amid concerns about freshwater scarcity, the agricultural sector faces challenges in water conservation and optimizing crop yields, highlighting the limitations of traditional irrigation scheduling methods. To overcome these challenges, this paper introduces a unified, learning-based predictive irrigation scheduler that integrates machine learning and Model Predictive Control (MPC), while also incorporating multi-agent principles. The proposed framework incorporates a three-stage management zone delineation proces…