Automated Crop Growth Monitoring and Optimizing the Yield with Reinforcement Learning

A reinforcement learning agent for optimal green-house management through Proximal Policy Optimisation is developed and evaluated in this work. With variable elements like lighting, irrigation, humidity, and temperature, a virtual greenhouse is produced. By interacting with the surroundings, the agent modifies the controls and gets input on things like crop health and growth rate. For policy and value estimation, the neural network design consists of distinct actor and critic networks as well as shared feature layers. Compared to fixed or random policies, the trained agent shows the ability to regulate conditions for increased crop yield and sustainability. As the number of trials increased, the RL agent's average return per trial increased steadily. This suggests that the RL agent has become more adept at controlling the greenhouse environment in subsequent experiments. This demonstrates how well the RL agent can manage crop health and resource use in the greenhouse climate control system.