Lobo Pereira, FernandoFontes, Fernando ArmÉnioFerreira, Maria MargaridaPinho, Maria Do RosÁrioOliveira, Vilma AlvesCosta, EduardoSilva, Geraldo Nunes [UNESP]2015-04-272015-04-272013Conference Papers in Mathematics, v. 2013, p. 1-15, 2013.2314-4777http://hdl.handle.net/11449/122656An optimal control framework to support the management and control of resources in a wide range of problems arising in agriculture is discussed. Lessons extracted from past research on the weed control problem and a survey of a vast body of pertinent literature led to the specification of key requirements to be met by a suitable optimization framework. The proposed layered control structure—including planning, coordination, and execution layers—relies on a set of nested optimization processes of which an “infinite horizon” Model Predictive Control scheme plays a key role in planning and coordination. Some challenges and recent results on the Pontryagin Maximum Principle for infinite horizon optimal control are also discussed.1-15engArtigo10.1155/2013/769598Acesso abertoISSN2314-4777-2013-2013-01-15.pdf3638688119433520