vertical farming

Energy-efficient Automated Vertical Farms

  • Maxence Delorme
  • Alberto Santini
    • Categories Combinatorial Optimization, Production and Logistics Tags , , , ,

    Autonomous vertical farms (VFs) are becoming increasingly more popular, because they allow to grow food minimising water consumption and the use of pesticides, while greatly increasing the yield per square metre, compared with traditional agriculture. To meet sustainability goals, however, VFs must operate at maximum efficiency; it would be otherwise impossible to compete with the … Read more

    The Crop Growth Planning Problem in Vertical Farming

  • Enrico Bartolini
  • Alberto Santini
  • Vinicius Greco de Lemos
  • Michael Schneider
    • Categories Scheduling Tags , ,

    In this paper, we study the problem of planning the growth of crops on shelves in vertical farming cabinets under controlled growth conditions. By adjusting temperature, humidity, light, and other environmental conditions in different parts of the cabinets, a planner must ensure that crop growth is able to satisfy some deterministic demand. We prove this … Read more