Agricultural Cybernetics
Agricultural Cybernetics
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农业控制论
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-030-72102-2
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发表时间:
2021
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Qin Zhang
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作者:
Yanbo Huang;Qin Zhang
The primary purpose of agriculture is to feed people. As the industry with the longest history on earth, the production technology for agriculture production has evolved from traditional farming, mechanized farming, precision farming, and recently to digital farming. Enlightened by tens of years of experience in learning and practicing technology research and development for farming, both authors coincidently realized that the core philosophy of any farming technologies was built on the principle of cybernetics, though the specific technologies employed in different development stages of farming could be different.Author Yanbo Huang originally is a control engineer by training. He has been involved in and led projects across many fields, including macro/micro economic analysis, computer integrated manufacturing systems and agricultural production management systems using the methodology of cybernetics in control theory, systems engineering, and dynamic system time series analysis. Dr. Huang was among the earliest in the field to introduce process control schemes in chemical engineering to modeling and control of food processing unit operations. He pioneered the first complete systematic framework of artificial neural networks for modeling and control of a snack food frying unit operation. Yanbo Huang also developed algorithms for information processing and analysis. He was the first in agricultural engineering to develop 2D discrete wavelet analysis for feature extraction from ultrasonic elastography images, which was originally developed and used for breast cancer diagnosis, for meat quality evaluation. With these accomplishments, Dr. Huang, in 2001, wrote the book “Automation for Food Engineering: Food Quality Quantization and Process Control (CRC Press)” with co-authors and Texas A&M Professors A. Dale Whittaker and Ronald E. Lacey. The book provided a thorough introduction to the concept of “food process control.” Since then, Dr. Huang has gradually moved his research target to crop fields with similar approaches within the context of precision agriculture. In this research, he scaled the precision agricultural operations from strategic planning to tactic actions for instrumentation and control of spray application systems based on the prescription from remote sensing observations. When Dr. Huang was a college student studying