TY - JOUR
T1 - Predictive quality-aware control for scheduling of potato starch production
AU - Lin, Xiao
AU - Negenborn, Rudy R.
AU - Lodewijks, Gabriël
N1 - Accepted Author Manuscript
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Modern technologies have enabled approaches to estimate freshness of perishable products during production and distribution. This allows supply chains to apply more advanced decision support systems in order to further reduce the loss of perishable products. In this paper we focus on the postharvest scheduling of starch potatoes. In particular we propose a quality-aware scheduling method that can be used in a decision support system for starch potato postharvest operations. Considering the quality of stored potatoes in real-time, the method determines when and how many potatoes should be harvested, sent for starch production, or stored. A centralized and a distributed control strategy are developed, with the aim of minimizing total starch loss in dynamic environments. Simulation experiments illustrate how the proposed approaches deal with disturbances, and that the total starch loss can be reduced when real-time quality information of potatoes is taken into account.
AB - Modern technologies have enabled approaches to estimate freshness of perishable products during production and distribution. This allows supply chains to apply more advanced decision support systems in order to further reduce the loss of perishable products. In this paper we focus on the postharvest scheduling of starch potatoes. In particular we propose a quality-aware scheduling method that can be used in a decision support system for starch potato postharvest operations. Considering the quality of stored potatoes in real-time, the method determines when and how many potatoes should be harvested, sent for starch production, or stored. A centralized and a distributed control strategy are developed, with the aim of minimizing total starch loss in dynamic environments. Simulation experiments illustrate how the proposed approaches deal with disturbances, and that the total starch loss can be reduced when real-time quality information of potatoes is taken into account.
KW - Model predictive control
KW - Perishable goods
KW - Postharvest scheduling
KW - Quality-aware modeling
KW - Starch potatoes
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U2 - 10.1016/j.compag.2018.04.020
DO - 10.1016/j.compag.2018.04.020
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85046822759
SN - 0168-1699
VL - 150
SP - 266
EP - 278
JO - Computers and Electronics in Agriculture
JF - Computers and Electronics in Agriculture
ER -