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Automation and Systems Analysis | SpringerLink

Automation is one important aspect of advanced plant production systems within controlled environments. Building on the successful foundation of mechanization, automation is aiming at operating machines requiring minimum human supervision. This means that machines need to be equipped with human-like abilities of perception, reasoning/learning, communication, and task planning/execution. Examples of automation research at Rutgers University will be presented to illustrate each of these machine abilities. Systems analysis is a methodology which starts with the definition of a system and leads to the conclusion regarding the system’s workability, productivity, reliability, and other performance indicators. In implementing a plant based engineering system, proper and effective functioning of the entire system is the ultimate goal. The importance of systems level analysis is therefore obvious. To facilitate the analysis, an automation-culture-environment oriented systems analysis methodology, namely ACE_SYS, has been under development at Rutgers University in recent years. The purpose of ACE_SYS is to provide a concurrent science/engineering cyber environment for analyzing systems consisting of automation, culture of biological objects, and controlled environment. The plant based engineering systems studied at Rutgers University have evolved from greenhouses to integrated controlled environment plant production systems (CEPPS) and to the inclusion of phytoremediation and bioregenerative life support systems (BLSS for long duration space exploration missions). The term “phytomation” has therefore been created to describe the overall, more encompassing plant based engineering system concept. Representative phytomation systems will be described with emphasis on integration at the systems level.

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1. Department of Bioresource Engineering, Rutgers University-Cook College, P.O. Box 231, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 08903-0231, USA

   K. C. Ting

1. Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

   E. Goto  & K. Kurata  & 

2. School of High-Technology for Human Welfare, Tokai University, Shizuoka, Japan

   M. Hayashi

3. National Research Institute of Agricultural Engineering, Ibaraki, Japan

   S. Sase

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Ting, K.C. (1997). Automation and Systems Analysis. In: Goto, E., Kurata, K., Hayashi, M., Sase, S. (eds) Plant Production in Closed Ecosystems. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8889-8_11

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