Greenhouse climate hierarchical fuzzy modelling

Fuzzy modelling has been widely applied as a powerful methodology for the identification of nonlinear systems from process measurements. Most applications use flat sets of fuzzy rules, which are hardly interpretable black-box approaches. Hierarchical modelling is a promising tool to deal with real world complex systems. A large-scale model can be easily readable if it is partitioned into several independent smaller models to represent functional relations of the processes involved in the system. This article deals with the application of a new fuzzy modelling technique that automatically organizes the sets of fuzzy IF-THEN rules in a Hierarchical Collaborative Structure. This organizational structure makes the fuzzy model interpretable as in the case of the physical model. This new methodology was tested to split the inside greenhouse air temperature and humidity flat fuzzy models into fuzzy sub-models, which have alike counterpart on the physical sub-models.