Argus Controls: Aiming for the stars

Abstract

EDEN ISS is a four-year project created by the European Union's Research & Innovation Programme Horizon 2020 in which researchers aim to address the supply of food for long-term missions to outer space with innovations in cultivating food in closed-loop systems. Private and public organizations from around the globe have teamed up to advance controlled environment agriculture technologies beyond the state-of-the-art. The EDEN ISS consortium is comprised of leading experts from Europe, Canada and the USA in human spaceflight and controlled environment agriculture. The EDEN ISS scientific advisory board consists of the top scientists in the field from Russia, USA, Japan, Italy and Germany. Argus Controls has been selected as the controls system for this greenhouse test facility that will demonstrate the technologies and procedures necessary for food production in closed environments located in extreme outside conditions.