Research exploring greenhouse environment control over the last 50 years

作     者：Tadashi Takakura 

作者机构：NARO Institute for Rural EngineeringTsukubaIbaraki 305-8609Japan 

出 版 物：《International Journal of Agricultural and Biological Engineering》 (国际农业与生物工程学报（英文）)

年 卷 期：2019年第12卷第5期

页      面：1-7页

核心收录：

学科分类：0710[理学-生物学] 0810[工学-信息与通信工程] 082803[工学-农业生物环境与能源工程] 08[工学] 0828[工学-农业工程] 0805[工学-材料科学与工程（可授工学、理学学位）] 0812[工学-计算机科学与技术（可授工学、理学学位）] 

主　　题：computer control evapotranspiration global and diffused solar radiation nondestructive and non-contact measurement photosynthesis SPA 

摘      要：Environments do not exist in isolation.Their main components in greenhouse systems are plants.Without consideration of plants,analysis of greenhouse environments and environmental control of greenhouses can be accomplished,although it is not simple to achieve.Initial attempts were undertaken to analyze greenhouse environments and then reproduce them.Ventilation rate effects on plant photosynthesis in a growth chamber were reported in 1966.Computer simulations then became a main subject of research.The first dynamic computer simulation of a greenhouse environment including plants was published in 1971.According to innovations of computer technology,the use of minicomputers and microcomputers spread in many areas.By measuring the net photosynthesis of lettuce plants grown under artificial lighting,air temperature was optimized using a minicomputer with the hill-climbing method.The method was designated as the Speaking Plant Approach to environment control(SPA).After the author developed the first reported environmental control system in Japan,systems using microcomputers spread widely for greenhouse environmental control.Knowledge-based expert systems were tested for plant management.Also,a machine vision system was developed to detect critical moments for watering of muskmelon plants.The first feed-forward control method for greenhouses with a large heat mass was reported.Then space farming was tested in 1996 to assess gravity effects on plants.Energy-saving aspects such as solar sterilization,ground heat storage system,and storage using phase change material(PCM)have been reported.Defects of ordinary solarimeters were reported in 2008 along with an approach to estimate evapotranspiration in a greenhouse without the effect of so-called cosine law.Later,this technique was expanded to estimate photosynthesis of the plant canopy in a greenhouse using newly developed sensor units.