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The amount of water in the soil has an impact on how well plants absorb nutrients. As a result, both above and below-the-surface water dynamics have an effect on crop growth. The quality of the soil and its mechanical qualities can be significantly altered by both an excess or a lack of water, which could make food production unsustainable. This study deals with the development of a precision farming approach to irrigation that considers the topographical features of the arable land and incorporates its morphological properties. The prediction of the water movement in the topsoil layer is an essential element of this strategy, which uses an agent-based model to describe the soil dynamics and the impact of irrigation and exploits a model predictive control (MPC) to optimize water usage. As a case study, the municipality of Samacá in the department of Boyacá, Colombia, is considered.
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Control Engineering Practice strives to meet the needs of industrial practitioners and industrially related academics and researchers. It publishes papers which illustrate the direct application of control theory and its supporting tools in all possible areas of automation. As a result, the journal only contains papers which can be considered to have made significant contributions to the application of advanced control techniques. It is normally expected that practical results should be included, but where simulation only studies are available, it is necessary to demonstrate that the simulation model is representative of a genuine application. Strictly theoretical papers will find a more appropriate home in Control Engineering Practice''s sister publication, Automatica. It is also expected that papers are innovative with respect to the state of the art and are sufficiently detailed for a reader to be able to duplicate the main results of the paper (supplementary material, including datasets, tables, code and any relevant interactive material can be made available and downloaded from the website). The benefits of the presented methods must be made very clear and the new techniques must be compared and contrasted with results obtained using existing methods. Moreover, a thorough analysis of failures that may happen in the design process and implementation can also be part of the paper.
The scope of Control Engineering Practice matches the activities of IFAC.
Papers demonstrating the contribution of automation and control in improving the performance, quality, productivity, sustainability, resource and energy efficiency, and the manageability of systems and processes for the benefit of mankind and are relevant to industrial practitioners are most welcome.
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