Digital twins for vertical farming

垂直农业的数字孪生

• 批准号: 571921-2022
• 负责人: Sahraoui, HouariHA
• 金额: $ 2.19万
• 依托单位: Université de Montréal
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Alliance Grants
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2022-01-01 至 2023-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=757405
• 关键词: Digital; twins; vertical; farming

Food autonomy is an importnt concern in Quebec and Canada. At the same time, the population of Canada has been steadily increasing by over 300,000 per annum since 1960. Inappropriate food autonomy poses serious threats to the sustainable development of Canada and, as a consequence, of Quebec. In Quebec, the main challenge to achieve sustainable food autonomy is the four-season climate that prevents year-round open-air farming. Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA), chiefly associated with Vertical Farming, offers a sustainable solution to cope with the concerns and challenges of local food production. CEA archives this by a resource and cost efficient solution to produce vegetables and fruits in a closed and controlled environment, using artificial lighting and managed environmental conditions. Ferme d'Hiver is a leading Quebec-based company targeting the production of off-season, high-nutrition fruits and vegetables in an environmentally controlled growth environment, without the use of chemical pesticides. Ferme d'Hiver aims at optimizing the yield and the energy consumption of its operations by integrating various cutting-edge technologies to automate its production system and by recovering the heat produced by the vertical farming lights to heat adjacent greenhouses. The goal of this project is to investigate the feasibility of applying Digital Shadows for modeling the behavior of living organisms for the analysis and control of their lifecycle. Digital Shadows allow the simulation of the production cycle and the exploration of various scenarios for the optimization of the production system. Although already applied in conjunction with cyber-physical systems, the use of digital shadows for biological organisms such as plants remains a challenge. Therefore, this project provides means for developing Digital Shadows of systems featuring biological organisms by extending the definition of the physical asset.

食品自主权是魁北克省和加拿大的一个重要问题。与此同时，自 1960 年以来，加拿大人口每年稳定增长超过 30 万。不适当的粮食自主权对加拿大乃至魁北克省的可持续发展构成了严重威胁。在魁北克，实现可持续粮食自主的主要挑战是四季气候阻碍了全年露天农业。受控环境农业（CEA）主要与垂直农业相关，提供可持续的解决方案来应对当地粮食生产的问题和挑战。 CEA 通过一种资源高效且具有成本效益的解决方案实现了这一目标，利用人工照明和受控环境条件，在封闭且受控的环境中生产蔬菜和水果。 Ferme d'Hiver 是一家总部位于魁北克的领先公司，致力于在环境受控的生长环境中生产反季节高营养水果和蔬菜，不使用化学农药。 Ferme d'Hiver 旨在通过整合各种尖端技术实现生产系统自动化，并回收垂直农用灯产生的热量为邻近的温室供暖，从而优化其运营的产量和能源消耗。该项目的目标是研究应用数字阴影对生物体行为进行建模以分析和控制其生命周期的可行性。数字阴影允许模拟生产周期并探索各种场景以优化生产系统。尽管已经与网络物理系统结合应用，但将数字阴影用于植物等生物有机体仍然是一个挑战。因此，该项目通过扩展物理资产的定义，提供了开发以生物有机体为特征的系统数字影子的方法。