Engineering for Intensive Crops Engineering and Technologies for Horticultural Plant Production

Intensive horticultural production is characterized by the use of greenhouses and automation technologies. In the project ZINEG (Low-Energy-Greenhouse for the Future) greenhouse concepts were developed that achieve over 80 % energy saving compared to conventional greenhouses. The extent of the increasing influence of humidity on the plant quality is currently being tested. For further development and integration of automation techniques in highly intensive plant production processes, work was carried out to allow automatic image analysis of complex plant situations. Using so-called Active Shape Models and the use of new developed overlapping algorithms the previously unsolved problem of automation in overlapping situations can be significantly reduced. A first prototype of an analysis machine in the field of weed control with laser technology in the greenhouse was developed.