Towards Fully Automated Decision-Making Systems for Greenhouse Control: Challenges and Opportunities

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Main Authors: Liu, Yongshuai, Choi, Taeyeong, Liu, Xin
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Published: 2025
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author Liu, Yongshuai
Choi, Taeyeong
Liu, Xin
author_facet Liu, Yongshuai
Choi, Taeyeong
Liu, Xin
contents Machine learning has been successful in building control policies to drive a complex system to desired states in various applications (e.g. games, robotics, etc.). To be specific, a number of parameters of policy can be automatically optimized from the observations of environment to be able to generate a sequence of decisions leading to the best performance. In this survey paper, we particularly explore such policy-learning techniques for another unique, practical use-case scenario--farming, in which critical decisions (e.g., water supply, heating, etc.) must be made in a timely manner to minimize risks (e.g., damage to plants) while maximizing the revenue (e.g., healthy crops) in the end. We first provide a broad overview of latest studies on it to identify not only domain-specific challenges but opportunities with potential solutions, some of which are suggested as promising directions for future research. Also, we then introduce our successful approach to being ranked second among 46 teams at the ''3rd Autonomous Greenhouse Challenge'' to use this specific example to discuss the lessons learned about important considerations for design to create autonomous farm-management systems.
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spellingShingle Towards Fully Automated Decision-Making Systems for Greenhouse Control: Challenges and Opportunities
Liu, Yongshuai
Choi, Taeyeong
Liu, Xin
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Machine learning has been successful in building control policies to drive a complex system to desired states in various applications (e.g. games, robotics, etc.). To be specific, a number of parameters of policy can be automatically optimized from the observations of environment to be able to generate a sequence of decisions leading to the best performance. In this survey paper, we particularly explore such policy-learning techniques for another unique, practical use-case scenario--farming, in which critical decisions (e.g., water supply, heating, etc.) must be made in a timely manner to minimize risks (e.g., damage to plants) while maximizing the revenue (e.g., healthy crops) in the end. We first provide a broad overview of latest studies on it to identify not only domain-specific challenges but opportunities with potential solutions, some of which are suggested as promising directions for future research. Also, we then introduce our successful approach to being ranked second among 46 teams at the ''3rd Autonomous Greenhouse Challenge'' to use this specific example to discuss the lessons learned about important considerations for design to create autonomous farm-management systems.
title Towards Fully Automated Decision-Making Systems for Greenhouse Control: Challenges and Opportunities
topic Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.21640