摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To realize a reduction in agrochemicals or a fertilizer by accurately recognizing the positions of crops, calculating the present positions of the crops from the traveling speed, etc., of a car body, performing operations to open or close a solenoid valve and applying the chemical or fertilizer from an application nozzle only to the intrarow spacing or only to the crops or weeds. SOLUTION: This system for controlling the application of the agrochemicals or fertilizer comprises a mobile carriage 1 moving along a crop cultivation ridge row and equipped with a machine vision 6 for successively taking a picture of a prescribed range of the crop cultivation ridge row in the front position according to the movement of the mobile carriage 1, a computer 8 for processing an image picked up with the machine vision 6 and recognizing the positions of the crops, the application nozzle 13 for applying the chemical or fertilizer through a solenoid valve 12 and a computer 9 for controlling the application capable of calculating the present positions of the crops from the positional information about the crops fed from the computer 8 for the image processing and the traveling speed measured with wheels 4 of the car body and performing the operations to open or close the solenoid valve 12 and is capable of applying the chemical or fertilizer only to the intrarow spacing or only to the crops or weeds.
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