Tabu Search (TS)

Tabu Search (TS) usually used in scalarization approach that uses a combination with the local search algorithm. It was initially designed for single-objective combinatorial optimization problems that works via iterative basis by searching for an improved solution in...

VRP Network Criteria

The network criteria in VRP consists of a graph which the nodes represent the customers, towns or depots. The arcs or edges drawn in the network represent the real links such as roads or pipelines. In valuated graphs, the cost of traversing an arc or edge is generally...

History of Vehicle Routing Problem

Usually, the problem of optimizing routes for vehicles and mobile robot is classified into the Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP). The VRP is a type of combinatorial optimization and integer programming problem that asks, “What is the optimal set of routes for the...

Pesticide Spraying Techniques

In most of the farming practices, pesticides are usually applied uniformly throughout the fields to control the spreading of diseases. This technique is applied despite several pests and diseases exhibit at an uneven spatial distribution, especially during early...

The Importance of Greenhouse Farming

Usually, plants are grown in an open field or in a controlled enclosed environment called greenhouse. The inability to control the optimum amount of nutrients and diseases prevention in an open field has made the alternative of using greenhouses to become a very...

Agricultural Robot Introduction

Agriculture is the backbone of society as it mainly functions to provide food, feed and fiber on which all human depends to live. Precision agriculture is implemented with a goal to apply sufficient treatments at the right place in the right time with the purpose to...