• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제28권6호
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• pp.531-536
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• 2003

This study was carried out to develop a vacuum nozzle seeder for large seeds and performance was tested on seed feeding, arranging. and sowing peformance. The results of this study were as follows： The operation of feeding device of the seeder was programmed to operate a period of setting time after sowing 6 rows. The setting time was decided based on a discharged seed by the angular speed of feeding roller. The arranging accuracy of 'tuktozwa', 'hukjong' and 'chambak' was 96.4％, 95.2％ and 89.4％ respectively. The working performance was 75.6sheet/hr which was 3.8 times higher than that of manual work. An average seeding rate of 1 grain was 97.8％.

• 융복합기술연구소 논문집
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.37-40
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• 2013

Plant factory industry as a new agriculture is in the spotlight. In this paper, we experimented plant factory applied photovoltaic system and LED lighting. For growing the plant, red, blue and white LED were placed into 1:4:3. Electric power generated by the photovoltaic system was supplied on DC power supply instead of AC. The designed and experimented power generation amount per day of photovoltaic system were 2,860 Wh and 2,272 Wh respectively. Plant has not been grown at the dead space of LED lighting so it is required to array LED lighting.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제40권4호
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• pp.769-779
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• 2015

본 논문에서는, 친환경 Green IT 기술과 융합된 식물공장 시스템의 이상적인 표준 설계 및 구축안을 요소기술별로 제시하였으며, 이의 실현 가능성과 문제점 분석을 위해 요소기술별 관련 하드웨어 및 소프트웨어를 종합한 콘테이너형 식물공장 테스트베드를 구축하여 운영하고, 운영상의 문제점을 파악하여 미래의 대형 식물공장 구축과 운영의 기반이 되는 시험연구를 수행하였다.

• 한국농업기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국농업기계학회 2000년도 THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY ENGINEERING. V.I
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• pp.1-30
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• 2000

고차원의 식물공장 개발이 논의되었는데, 이것은 식물생장환경을 위한 공정제어, 물류 조작을 위한 기계화, 생산을 위한 시스템 제어, 그리고 컴퓨터 응용과 같은 기술들을 포함한다. 더 나아가 식물공장의 장점들은 생산의 안정화, 높은 생산 효율, 생장기간의 단축화를 통한 생산물의 더 나은 품질관리, 더 좋은 조건들, 낮은 소요 노동력, 그리고 산업적 개념의 더 용이한 적용을 포함한다. 마지막으로 태양광과 인공광을 사용하는 궁극적이 식물공장을 실현하기 위하여, 제어공학의 지능적 접근, 생리학적 생태환경과 인공지능(AI)이 필연적이어서 저자가 이룩한 약간의 연구업적에 근거하여 소개되었다.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제43권1호
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• pp.30-36
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• 2018

Purpose: The objective of this study is to evaluate the effect of cultivation conditions on the growth and glucosinolate content of Chinese cabbage and kale. Methods: Chinese cabbage and kale were grown in three different cultivation conditions, including a plant factory, greenhouse, and open field. Samples were collected at two harvesting times (10 d and 20 d after transplanting the seedlings). Nine growth parameters (plant height, plant width, number of leaves, petiole diameter, SPAD readout, leaf length, leaf width, stem diameter, and plant weight) were measured immediately after harvesting, and the samples were freeze-dried and stored until the glucosinolate content was analyzed. Mean values of the growth parameters and glucosinolate contents were evaluated using Duncan's multiple range tests. Results: The results indicated that the plant parameters of the Chinese cabbage and kale were greater for plants grown in the plant factory and greenhouse. The plant height, width, and weight showed significant differences in the Duncan's multiple range tests at a 5% level. The plant factory also produced greater contents of most of the glucosinolates. Conclusions: Three different cultivation conditions significantly affected the growth and glucosinolate contents of Chinese cabbage and kale. Further study is necessary to investigate other functional components and different vegetable varieties.

• 한국생물환경조절학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국생물환경조절학회 1996년도 국제심포지움 21세기 첨단식물생산시스템의 실용화
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• pp.1-10
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• 1996

Factory-style plant production systems of various kinds are the final goal of greenhouse production systems. These systems facilitate planning for constant productivity per unit area and labor under various outside weather conditions, although energy consumption is intensive. Physical environmental control in combination with biological control can replace the use of agricultural chemicals such as insecticides, herbicides and hormones to regulate plants. In this way, closed systems which do not use such agricultural chemicals are ideal for environmental conservation for the future. Nutrient components in plants can be regulafied by physical environmental control including nutrient solution control in hydroponics. Therefore, specific contents of nutrients for particular plants can be listed on the container and be used as the basis of customer choice in the future. Plant production systems can be classified into three types based on the type of lighting: natural lighting, supplemental lighting and completely artificial lighting (Plant Factory). The amount of energy consumption increases in this order, although the degree of weather effects is in the reverse order. In the addition to lighting, factory-style plant production systems consist of mechanized and automated systems for transplanting, environmental control, hydroponics, transporting within the facility, and harvesting. Space farming and development of pharmaceutical in bio-reactors are other applications of these types of plant production systems. Various kinds of state-of-art factory-style plant production systems are discussed in the present paper. These systems are, in general, rather sophisticated and mechaized, and energy consumption is intensive. Factory-style plant production is the final goal of greenhouse production systems and the possibilities for the future are infinte but not clear.

• 한국융합학회논문지
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• 제9권11호
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• pp.91-97
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• 2018

식물공장은 센서네트워크를 비롯한 U-IT 기술이 접목된 미래 농업기술 중 하나로서 기존 온실재배 기술의 한계인 외부 환경적 요인의 영향을 최소화 할 수 있는 장점을 갖고 있다. 식물공장의 자동화된 재배 시스템은 작물 재배에 대한 편의 제공이라는 단순한 범위을 벗어나 식물공장에서 취득된 정보을 기반으로 하는 지식베이스의 구축과 이를 활용한 교육, 기타 응용 서비스 개발이 가능한 플랫폼으로서의 확장성을 제공한다. 본 논문에서는 식물공장의 서비스 확장을 위하여 식물공장 간 작물생육과 연관된 정보의 효율적 공유를 위한 Plant Factory Interworking Service(PFIS) 를 설계하고 이에 대한 구현 및 서비스 테스트에 대한 연구를 수행하였다.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제14권11호
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• pp.5570-5575
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• 2013

이 연구에서는 산 학 연 전문가들을 대상으로 향후 국내 식물공장 시스템의 활성화를 위한 발전방향의 우선순위를 도출하고 부문별 중요도를 분석하였다. 분석결과에 따르면, 식물공장 발전을 위해서는 최우선적으로 경제성이 확보되어야 한다. 경제성을 확보하기 위해서는 계약재배에 의한 주년생산을 통해 판로확보와 출하시기 조절이 요구되며, 기술개발 R&D 부문에서는 LED, 형광등 등 광원 및 조명기술이 중요한 것으로 나타났다. 한편, 정책 및 제도개선 부문에서는 무엇보다 소비자 인식 전환이 이루어져야 하며 그 다음 설비 투자 지원정책이 뒷받침되어야 한다. 식물공장의 정착을 위해서는 전후방 산업을 중심으로 인프라가 구축되어야 하며 기술개발과 지원정책을 통해 설치 운영비 절감이 이루어져야 한다.

• 생물환경조절학회지
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.69-76
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• 1993

최근 작물의 공장적 재배는 $\boxDr$식물공장$\boxUl$이라는 단어로 대표되는, 새로운 재배방식의 하나로서 세계적으로 주목받고 있다. 식물공장(plant factory or factory- style plant production system)이라는 단어의 의미와 같이 $\boxDr$시설내의 작물을 공장제품의 생산과 동일하게 재배하는 시스템$\boxUl$이다. 즉 자연환경에 의존하지 않고 인공환경하에서 식물을 공장적으로 재배하는 방식을 의미한다. 이를 위해서는 지하부의 양액, 지상부의 온습도, 탄산가스, 광 등에 대한 고도의 환경제어 및 작업의 자동화가 필요하다.(중략)

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제23권6호
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• pp.629-634
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• 1998

Factory-style plant production system aims to produce the standardized horticultural products with high quality and cleanness. In Korea, researches for year-round leaf vegetables production system are in progress and the most of them are focused on environment control. Automating technologies for harvesting, transporting and grading need to be developed. A lettuce harvesting system applicable to the plant factory was studied. It was composed of an articulated robot with a cutter and a gripper, lettuce feeding conveyor and air blower. Success rate of the developed system was 94.7 %. The system carried out harvesting a lettuce smoothly and the harvesting time was about 6 seconds per lettuce. The results showed a feasibility of robotic lettuce harvesting.