Jurnal Teknik Pertanian Lampung (Journal of Agricultural Engineering)
Vol. 14 No. 5 (2025): October 2025

The Performance of Water Irrigation Control using Fuzzy-GA Approach

Soambaton, Muhamad Febrian (Unknown)
Nugroho, Anan (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
24 Sep 2025

Abstract

Irrigation in agriculture uses around 70% of freshwater resources globally, but traditional systems often result in ineffective utilization through rigid schedules or skewed decision-making. This article proposes an improved fuzzy logic controller developed using a Genetic Algorithm (GA) to optimize soil moisture control. The GA optimizes the fuzzy membership functions within 50 generations to enhance irrigation efficiency. Simulation and experimental results show that the fuzzy-GA controller maintained soil moisture at values close to the desired value of 25.1% with lower error rates, saving 858 mL more water than manual irrigation and 16 mL more than conventional fuzzy control. The results confirm the potential of fuzzy-GA systems in optimizing irrigation efficiency and ensuring sustainable use of water in agriculture. The fuzzy-genetic algorithm (Fuzzy-GA) improves fuzzy logic control by maintaining soil moisture at a target level of 25.1%, with a very low steady-state error of 0.03783%.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

JTP

Publisher

Subject

Agriculture, Biological Sciences & Forestry Engineering

Description

Jurnal Teknik Pertanian Lampung or Journal of Agricultural Engineering (JTEP-L) is a peer-reviewed open-access journal. The journal invites scientists and engineers throughout the world to exchange and disseminate theoretical and practice-oriented researches in the whole aspect of Agricultural ...