JP-7857073-B2 - Cultivation support system, cultivation support device, cultivation support method and program

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Inventors

細見心一
佐々木昌
宮地孝明
中村新

Assignees

オムロン株式会社

Dates

Publication Date: 20260512
Application Date: 20200313

Claims (13)

A system to support plant cultivation, A means for acquiring growth information to obtain information relating to the growth state of the aforementioned plant, A growth state evaluation means for evaluating the growth state of the aforementioned plant in stages, A means for determining the optimal cultivation work corresponding to the growth state of the aforementioned plant, A work instruction information creation means creates work instruction information indicating the tasks to be performed by a person engaged in the cultivation of the plant, based on the cultivation work determined by the work content determination means. An output means that outputs the work instruction information created by the aforementioned work instruction information creation means, It has , The aforementioned growth status evaluation means evaluates the growth status of the plant in stages from the perspectives of vegetative growth and reproductive growth, according to the plant variety. The work content determination means determines the cultivation work based on a data table that defines the cultivation work content corresponding to the stages of vegetative growth and reproductive growth according to the plant variety, and the evaluation results from the growth status evaluation means. Cultivation support system.
The system further includes means for obtaining cultivation policies for the aforementioned plants, The aforementioned data table specifies the cultivation work content corresponding to the stages of vegetative growth and reproductive growth for each cultivation policy. The work content determination means further uses the cultivation policy information acquired by the cultivation policy acquisition means to determine the cultivation work. The cultivation support system according to claim 1 , characterized in that
It also has a means for acquiring work history information to obtain past cultivation work history information, The work content determination means further uses the information of past work history acquired by the work history acquisition means to determine the cultivation work. A cultivation support system according to claim 1 or 2 , characterized in that
The system further includes means for acquiring environmental information related to the growing environment of the aforementioned plants. The aforementioned work content determination means further uses the environmental information acquired by the environmental information acquisition means to determine the cultivation work. A cultivation support system according to any one of claims 1 to 3 , characterized in that
The system further includes a means for acquiring breeder information, which acquires information relating to the cultivation skills of persons engaged in the cultivation of the aforementioned plants. A cultivation support system according to any one of claims 1 to 4 , characterized in that
The aforementioned work content determination means further uses the information acquired by the breeder information acquisition means to determine the cultivation work. The cultivation support system according to claim 5 , characterized in that...
The work instruction information creation means creates work instruction information according to the information acquired by the trainer information acquisition means. A cultivation support system according to claim 5 or 6 , characterized in that it is the same as the one described in claim 5 or 6.
The aforementioned work instruction information is, This includes a graph showing the relationship between the passage of time and the growth state of the plant, The cultivation support system according to claim 1, characterized in that
The aforementioned work instruction information is, The system includes a graph that shows the stages of growth related to vegetative growth and the stages of growth related to reproductive growth in a matrix , and a display on the graph that shows the current growth state of the plant and a display on the graph that shows the cultivation target for the plant. The cultivation support system according to claim 1 , characterized in that
A cultivation support device comprising the growth information acquisition means, the growth state evaluation means, the work content determination means, and the work instruction information creation means, which constitutes at least a part of the cultivation support system described in any one of claims 1 to 9 .
A method for supporting plant cultivation, Information processing device, A growth information acquisition step to acquire information relating to the growth state of the aforementioned plant, A growth status evaluation step for evaluating the growth status of the aforementioned plant in stages, A work content determination step in which the optimal cultivation work corresponding to the growth state of the aforementioned plant is determined, Based on the cultivation work determined in the aforementioned work content determination step, a work instruction information creation step is made to create work instruction information indicating the tasks that the person engaged in cultivating the plant should perform. An output step that outputs the work instruction information created in the work instruction information creation step, It has, In the aforementioned growth status evaluation step, the growth status of the plant is evaluated stepwise from the perspectives of vegetative growth and reproductive growth, depending on the plant variety. In the work content determination step, the cultivation work is determined based on a data table that defines the cultivation work content corresponding to the stages of vegetative growth and reproductive growth according to the plant variety, and the evaluation results in the growth status evaluation step. Cultivation support method.
The cultivation support method according to claim 11 , characterized in that each of the above steps is performed at predetermined intervals.
A program for causing an information processing terminal to perform each of the steps described in claim 1 .

Description

This invention relates to a technology for cultivating plants such as crops, and more specifically, to a plant cultivation support system, cultivation support device, cultivation support method, and program. In recent years, with the aging of agricultural workers becoming a problem, an increase in the number of new people entering agriculture is expected due to large-scale agricultural operations by companies and the development of opportunities for young people to enter farming. Furthermore, gardening (cultivating plants as a hobby) has also become common. Thus, because those newly engaged in agriculture or those who engage in gardening as a personal hobby often lack sufficient knowledge and know-how regarding plant cultivation, technologies have been proposed to support non-experts in plant cultivation (for example, Patent Document 1). Patent Document 1 discloses a technology that allows non-experts to assess the condition of plants by combining sensors (CCD, infrared sensor, bandpass filter) and performing imaging processing from a point away from the plant. This enables inexpensive, non-destructive measurement of indicators representing plant activity, such as leaf surface temperature and water potential. More specifically, it describes not only presenting images of the sensed plants as described above, but also converting and presenting information that allows users to determine whether fluctuations in the plant's leaf surface temperature are abnormal, based on vapor pressure deficit obtained from relative humidity measurements. Furthermore, it describes visually displaying the differences between the data and that of an ideal farmer (e.g., a farmer achieving high yields), and displaying an analysis of the user's cultivation methods in conjunction with this. Japanese Patent Publication No. 2014-198012 Figure 1 is a schematic diagram showing the general configuration of a cultivation support system according to an application example of the present invention.Figure 2 is a flowchart illustrating a part of the process performed in the cultivation support system related to the application example.Figure 3 is a schematic diagram showing the general configuration of the cultivation support system according to Embodiment 1.Figure 4 is a first explanatory diagram showing an example of the output of work instruction information in Embodiment 1.Figure 5A is a second explanatory diagram showing an example of the output of work instruction information in Embodiment 1. Figure 5B is a third explanatory diagram showing an example of the output of work instruction information in Embodiment 1.Figure 6 is a flowchart showing a portion of the processing flow performed in the cultivation support system according to Embodiment 1.Figure 7 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the cultivation support system according to Embodiment 2.Figure 8 is a schematic diagram showing a modified example of the cultivation support system according to Embodiment 2. The embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. <Examples of application> (Structure of the application example) The present invention can be applied, for example, to a cultivation support device 9 as shown in Figure 1. Figure 1 is a block diagram showing the functional configuration of the cultivation support device 9 according to this application example. The cultivation support device 9 can be configured, for example, by a general-purpose computer. Specifically, although not shown, it is configured to include a processing unit, input means (e.g., keyboard, mouse, touch panel, etc.), output means (e.g., liquid crystal display, etc.), and storage means (e.g., memory, hard disk drive, etc.), and may also be equipped with communication means (e.g., LAN interface board, wireless communication circuit, etc.). Furthermore, there are no particular restrictions on its form, and various forms such as desktop computers, notebook computers, tablet information processing terminals, etc. are conceivable, and it may even be a so-called smartphone. As shown in Figure 1, the cultivation support device 9 is configured to include the following functional units: a growth information acquisition unit 91, a growth status evaluation unit 92, a work content determination unit 93, a work instruction information creation unit 94, and an output unit 95. These functional units output information to support the grower's cultivation work according to the input information. The growth information acquisition unit 91 acquires information related to the growth state of plants via input means (including communication means). Information related to the growth state of plants includes, for example, information obtained from the appearance of the plant (stem thickness, number of fruits, etc.) and information related to photosynthesis obtained using a CO2 sensor, etc. This information may be input by the user through the input means, or it may be automati