A Real-Time Adaptive Control System for Border Irrigation

The shortage of water resources makes it urgent to increase agricultural irrigation efficiency. In response this need, study develops a real-time adaptive control (RACI) system for border irrigation. Avoiding the need traditional systems calculate soil infiltration properties in real-time, RACI adjusts inflow rate based on difference between actual and expected advance time. Simulations collected data are used evaluate analyze sensitivity input parameters, field experiments were carried out further verify performance experimental results indicate that delivers an average application efficiency, distribution uniformity, requirement deep percolation 0.930, 0.884, 0.954, 0.070, respectively. A analysis parameters (infiltration parameter, roughness coefficient, rate, slope) shows remains satisfactory even when varied. Given robustness more facile operation than systems, has potential become widely used.