The increasing world population makes it necessary to fight challenges such as climate change and to realize production efficiently and quickly. However, the minimum cost, maximum income, environmental pollution protection and the ability to save water and energy are all factors that should be taken into account in this process. The use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in agriculture to meet all of these criteria serves the purpose of precision agriculture. As unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can easily obtain real-time data, they have a great potential to address and optimize solutions to the problems faced by agriculture. Despite some limitations, such as the battery, load, weather conditions, etc., UAVs will be used frequently in agriculture in the future because of the valuable data that they obtain and their efficient applications. According to the known literature, UAVs have been carrying out tasks such as spraying, monitoring, yield estimation, weed detection, etc. In recent years, articles related to agricultural UAVs have been presented in journals with high impact factors. Most precision agriculture applications with UAVs occur in outdoor environments where GPS access is available, which provides more reliable control of the UAV in both manual and autonomous flights. On the other hand, there are almost no UAV-based applications in greenhouses where all-season crop production is available. This paper emphasizes this deficiency and provides a comprehensive review of the use of UAVs for agricultural tasks and highlights the importance of simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) for a UAV solution in the greenhouse.

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A Comprehensive Survey of the Recent Studies with UAV for Precision Agriculture in Open Fields and Greenhouses

In India nearly about 70 percentage of people are depending on agriculture. Numerous operations are performed in the agricultural field like seed sowing, grass cutting, ploughing etc. The present methods of seed sowing, pesticide spraying and grass cutting are difficult. The equipment's used for above actions are expensive and inconvenient to handle. So the agricultural system in India should be encouraged by developing a system which will reduce the man power and time. This work aims to design, develop and design of the robot which can sow the seeds, cut the grass and spray the pesticides, this whole system is powered by solar energy. The designed robot gets energy from solar panel and is operated using Bluetooth/Android App which sends the signals to the robot for required mechanisms and movement of the robot. This increases the efficiency of seed sowing, pesticide spraying and grass cutting and also reduces the problem encountered in manual planting.

Solar Powered Autonomous Multipurpose Agricultural Robot Using Bluetooth/Android App

Design and development of a robot for spraying fertilizers and pesticides for agriculture

Design and fabrication of an agricultural robot for crop seeding

In agriculture there is need for a technology that is more easily understood, implemented and used by the farmers. Equipment that requires less human effort and time with less cost of implementation is much required for success in agricultural industry. Autonomous robots built with less maintainance and that are portable as well as customizable according to the requirements might serve the purpose here and thus this paper presents you the design of a four wheel drive robot that does the work of seed sowing in ploughed agricultural land avoiding the human effort by tracing the path and sowing seeds at equal intervals using the field area parameters(length and breadth) and seed spacing intervals as inputs specified by the user. It also takes you through the design process of the robot, explains in detail the protype and the equipment used for building it and the difficulties faced during the different phases of the project. The paper also presents the sequence of steps to be followed to come up with designing a wheel drive robot and the parameters that has to be taken into consideration before building the prototype.

N Jaswanth Sai

Papers

Autonomous Seed Sowing Agricultural Robot