This #seminal #review paper summed up much of the thinking and research that I had been involved with for around a decade as a research scientist at the former Silsoe Research Institute at #Wrest Park Bedfordshire. (Wrest Park is a fabulous Stately home and was a gorgeous setting for UKs public sector agricultural engineering institute)

In many ways I remain an heir to that legacy with the remaining team members at Cranfield University. My work lies under Systems Modelling for Decisions -mostly under 1 and 2, but dipping into the rest

Key headings from the paper

Systems Modelling for Decisions:

1. Systems modelling for environmental #Life Cycle Assessment
2. Whole farm decisions and land use planning -the implications of farmers’ management decisions for environmental impacts
3. Decision support for complex uncertain systems – stochastic dynamic programming and weed control strategies
4. Linking process and systems models to support on-farm decision making – an example for fungicide does optimization

Control Engineering approaches to biological systems:

1. Incorporating models in the control loop
2. Control of multiple outputs -target growth but with limited emissions
3. Advanced sensing techniques – a route to more complex control opportunities
   1. machine vision
   2. biological sensors
4. Real-time machine control