Writing down mathematical models of agricultural greenhouses and regulating
them via advanced controllers are challenging tasks since strong perturbations,
like meteorological variations, have to be taken into account. This is why we
are developing here a new model-free control approach and the corresponding
intelligent controllers, where the need of a good model disappears. This
setting, which has been introduced quite recently and is easy to implement, is
already successful in many engineering domains. Tests on a concrete greenhouse
and comparisons with Boolean controllers are reported. They not only
demonstrate an excellent climate control, where the reference may be modified
in a straightforward way, but also an efficient fault accommodation with
respect to the actuators