Abstract:
Greenhouse flower gardens are highly vulnerable to internal and external climate
factors like sunlight, temperature, humidity, and carbon dioxide. An appropriate control
mechanism for the greenhouse flower garden environment is required to maximize the
growth and quality of the flowers. In this thesis, the nonlinear coupled multiple-input
multiple-output dynamic model of greenhouse flower garden climate is obtained and
transformed to its equivalent linear and decoupled model using feedback feedforward
linearization and decoupling technique. Then, a fuzzy sliding mode controller is designed
based on the linearized and decoupled model to obtain a fast response with less overshoot
and compared the results with SMC and PID controllers. The reference tracking and
disturbance rejection performance tests are performed by considering different reference
and disturbance values for the daytime summer season operations. The performance of
these controllers is evaluated using performance measures such as overshoot, settling
time, and rise time. In the tracking test, the system response of indoor temperature at
a reference value of temperature 27°C and humidity 22g/m
3
for the FSMC gave rise
time, settling time, and overshoot of 5.7837min, 10.3013min, and zero (0), respectively.
And also, the FSMC humidity response gave a zero overshoot with a settling time of
5.2201min. The result showed that FSMC provided a fast response in both temperature
and humidity responses. In the disturbance rejection test, the external disturbances such
as intercepted solar radiant energy, outside temperature, and outside humidity were
variable step type changes and time varying while the humidity and temperature set
points were step type changes. These external disturbances are also rejected by FSMC
for both humidity and temperature responses. In general, the performance measures
of the proposed controller for both performance tests informed that the FSMC indoor
temperature and humidity response is better than those of the SMC and PID controllers
for the designed system.
Keywords: Climate control, Flower Garden, Fuzzy-Slide Mode Controller.