In the AGROS project ‘Towards an autonomous greenhouse’, WUR Greenhouse Horticulture researchers are working together with business partners to realise fully automated cultivation in greenhouses. The project team explains: “We have taken steps from data collection with sensors, to data-driven support of cultivation, and the development of intelligent algorithms. Soon we hope to be able to apply them and further improve the development of sustainable production systems for healthy and fresh food.” The research team’s vision of the future is an autonomous greenhouse in which the expert knowledge of an experienced a grower currently carries around in their head is replaced by artificial intelligence. With new model-based control algorithms, the conditions in the greenhouse can be autonomously adjusted to achieve the cultivation goals. Watch the video on the development of an autonomous greenhouse to find out more about their work:
