Name
Abstract | ||
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This paper surveys a brief history of agriculture, demonstrating how advances in genetics, equipment, and management practices have resulted in the remarkable productivity experienced by today's agriculture industrial complex. We then show that progress in each of these areas is, in part, the result of new solutions to a feedback-control problem, whether it be for selective breeding, exploiting new sensor and actuation technology on a tractor or harvester, or using advanced crop and weather models to make better decisions about irrigation or pesticides. The paper concludes with an invitation for the controls community to explore the varied and important feedback-control problems in this area, emphasizing that sustainably feeding the exponentially growing global population, without harming the environment, will demand creative, careful thinking for years to come. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
|---|---|---|
2014 | 10.1109/ACC.2014.6859075 | American Control Conference |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
agriculture,crops,feedback,productivity,actuation technology,agriculture industrial complex,crop models,exponentially growing global population,farming,feedback control,feedback-control problems,genetics,harvester,management practices,productivity,selective breeding,sensor technology,tractor,weather models,Control applications,Emerging control applications | Population,Food processing,Environmental impact assessment,Computer science,Natural resource economics,Control engineering,Management practices,Agriculture,Irrigation,Tractor,Environmental engineering | Conference |
ISSN | Citations | PageRank |
0743-1619 | 0 | 0.34 |
References | Authors | |
2 | 3 | |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vasu Chetty | 1 | 34 | 3.17 |
| Nathan Woodbury | 2 | 0 | 0.34 |
| Sean Warnick | 3 | 198 | 25.76 |