Development of Energy Saving and Rapid Temperature Control Technology for Intelligent Greenhouses

Modern greenhouses need a certain equipment to achieve the expected environmental temperature in a short time while saving energy. To achieve greenhouse temperature management and energy savings through intelligent control, a greenhouse mechanism model is first built to study the controller design for a greenhouse located in Yiyang city in this paper. Then, the model accuracy is verified by experimental data. Based on the verified model, two intelligent control technologies are proposed, namely, active disturbance rejection control and fuzzy active disturbance rejection control. Methods are adopted to adjust skylight opening and thermal air conditioning for greenhouse temperature control and energy savings. In 60 hours of continuous working time, fuzzy active disturbance rejection control takes 10 hours less than active disturbance rejection control to make the greenhouse temperature reach the ideal steady state, and the temperature overshoot is reduced by 60%. Through analysis, the proposed fuzzy active disturbance rejection control method for greenhouse temperature management can achieve 15% energy savings. The proposed intelligent control technology can also be applied to temperature management for real greenhouses.