Method and system for controlling the cultivation of crops in a crop cultivation system

A computer-implemented method of modelling a crop cultivation system, comprising creating an ontology with a plurality of objects and relations between said objects, wherein the objects include at least:

• a space object representing a cultivation space of the cultivation system for cultivating crops therein,
• a crop object representing one or more crops for being cultivated in the cultivation space,
• one or more actuator objects representing one or more actuators of the cultivation system for use in cultivating the one or more crops, and
• a source object representing a source of the cultivation system.

A crop cultivation system, comprising

• a cultivation space module for cultivating crops;
• a crop module of one or more crops to be cultivated in the cultivation space module;
• one or more actuator modules for use in cultivating the crops;
• and
• an optimiser comprising an ontology of the cultivation system having a plurality of objects and relations between the objects, wherein the objects include at least a space object representing the cultivation space module, a crop object representing the crop module, and one or more actuator objects representing the one or more actuator modules;
• wherein the optimiser is configured to determine one or more control objectives for controlling the cultivation system using the one or more actuators, based on the ontology.