Development of a Field Robot Platform for Mechanical Weed Control in Greenhouse Cultivation of Cucumber (original) (raw)

IJERT-Development and Usability Test of Pesticide Spraying Robot for Greenhouse

International Journal of Engineering Research and Technology (IJERT), 2021

https://www.ijert.org/development-and-usability-test-of-pesticide-spraying-robot-for-greenhouse https://www.ijert.org/research/development-and-usability-test-of-pesticide-spraying-robot-for-greenhouse-IJERTV10IS050076.pdf The purpose of this study is to introduce the development of a pesticide spraying robot to prevent the health hazards such as pesticide poisoning and heatstroke that occur during spraying pesticides in a greenhouse and to compensate the farmers' shortage due to the aging and decrease of farmers. This robot is autonomous and can be operated unmanned. It moves between ridges in the greenhouse by line traces and sprays pesticides based on the results of image recognition and measurement of the distance to crops by ultrasonic sensors. Using n CCD camera for line tracking was adopted as the driving method. The width of the robot was kept within 50 cm, so it was possible to significantly reduce costs and maintain the yield of crops without having to rebuild the fields. In addition, identifying the crops to apply pesticides by image recognition and accurately applying pesticides only to the crops, the usage of pesticides was reduced by about 42%. This has the advantage of reducing the cost of pesticides and reducing the impact of pesticides on crops. As a future improvement of the robot, we will try to reduce the cost by replacing myRIO used in the microcomputer with an inexpensive microcomputer such as Arduino. Robots have already been put in Practical use for cucumbers, white radishes, and peanuts, tomatoes, etc., but we will continue to put them into practical use for other types.

Design and full realization of physical weed control (PWC) automated machine within the RHEA project

2014

Currently precision agriculture can rely on modern technologies that allow to design and realize operative machines provided with perception systems, in order to perform precise and targeted treatments. The ultimate objective of this synergy consists in reducing the use of agrochemicals and energy, enhancing the sustainability of agricultural practices. In this regard, the RHEA project funded by EU, aims to develop a fleet of etherogenous autonomous robot units in order to perform precise treatments related to crop protection in different scenarios. In this paper is reported the design and the development of an automatic machines able to perform, at the same time, mechanical and thermal weed control on maize is described and discussed. The equipment will be coupled to an autonomous ground mobile unit equipped with a row and a weed detection systems. The operative machines was designed to remove weeds mechanically from the inter-row spaces of the crop and perform selective and target...