Dynamic detection device for growth of potted crop and detection method therefor

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10455776-B2
Application number	US-201515525894-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 9, 2015
Priority date	Nov 10, 2014
Publication date	Oct 29, 2019
Grant date	Oct 29, 2019

Abstract

A dynamic detection device for the growth of a potted crop, includes a detection platform and a rotating shaft. A first cantilever frame is fixed at an upper portion of the rotating shaft; a laser ranging sensor is mounted at a tail end of the first cantilever frame; a second cantilever frame is fixed at a lower portion of the rotating shaft, and a pressure sensor is mounted at a tail end of the second cantilever frame. The detection platform has several bases; weight information crop is collected via a load sensor; stem diameter and plant height information crop is collected via the pressure sensor, a photoelectric encoder and the laser ranging sensor; and growth information crop is described through information fusion, which can improve the efficiency and continuously monitor dynamic change information about the growth of a target crop in a growth process.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A dynamic detection device for the growth of a potted crop, comprising a detection platform and a rotating shaft, wherein, a rotating motor is mounted on a bottom end of the rotating shaft and configured to drive the rotating shaft to rotate;
a first cantilever frame is fixed to a top part of the rotating shaft, and a laser ranging sensor is mounted at a tail end of the first cantilever frame;
a second cantilever frame is fixed to a bottom part of the rotating shaft, and a first step motor is fixed to the rotating shaft and configured to drive the second cantilever frame to move left and right via a gear-and-rack device;
a pressure sensor is mounted at a tail end of the second cantilever frame;
a second step motor is arranged on the detection platform and configured to drive the rotating shaft to move left and right via the gear-and-rack device;
wherein the detection platform is further provided with several bases, each of which is provided with a load sensor, and the bases are arranged circularly along the rotating shaft.

2. The dynamic detection device for the growth of a potted crop according to claim 1 , wherein,
the first step motor is further provided with a photoelectric encoder, which is configured to measure the displacement of the second cantilever frame by detecting a number of turns of rotation of the first step motor and thereby accomplish the measurement of stem diameter of a potted crop sample.

3. The dynamic detection device for the growth of a potted crop according to claim 2 , further comprising a signal transmission and processing system, which comprises a data acquisition card, a control module, and a computer, wherein,
the data acquisition card is configured to transmit the signals of the laser ranging sensor, the pressure sensor, the photoelectric encoder, and the load sensor to the control module, the control module is connected with the computer and configured to control the rotating motor, the first step motor, and the second step motor.

4. The dynamic detection device for the growth of a potted crop according to claim 3 , wherein,
the first cantilever frame and the second cantilever frame are detachably fixed to the rotating shaft, and can be mounted on the rotating shaft at different positions, depending on the type of the potted crop sample.

Assignees

• Univ Jiangsu

Inventors

• Zhang Xiaodong
• Mao Hanping
• Gao Hongyan
• Zuo Zhiyu
• Li Li
• Zhang Yixue

Classifications

• A01G25/16

  Control of watering · CPC title

• G01N2021/8466

  Investigation of vegetal material, e.g. leaves, plants, fruits · CPC title

• G01N21/84

  Systems specially adapted for particular applications · CPC title

• G01B11/08

  for measuring diameters · CPC title

• A01G22/00

  Cultivation of specific crops or plants not otherwise provided for · CPC title