抄録
There are many kinds of problems in environment surrounding agriculture such as the farming population decrease, aging society, fake foods, environmental pollution with agricultural chemicals and chemical fertilizer, the dioxin contamination of field by waste incineration and etc. We should reconstruct a system. It is a farming system in which the state of the field, crops, and the circumference environment is quantitatively understood, and cultivation and the management method corresponding to the difference of these states are selected adequately. This system is necessary at the plant factory using sun optical. Then, we developed the information collecting robot in the plant factory. This robot mainly consisted of the mobile mechanism, the control unit, a proximity switch, an ultrasonic sensor and collects the plant diagnosis information such as the temperature of the leaf and the photosynthesis function with the self-position in the plant factory. As a result, states of each area of crops and the environment were able to be quantitatively understood based on the concept of the speaking plant approach.
