10Aug 2017

DEVELOPMENT OF DRONE WITH CUTTING ARM AND CROP DUSTER.

  • Student, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Saveethaschool of Engineering,Saveethauniversity, Chennai.
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Saveetha school of Engineering, Saveethauniversity, Chennai.
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To design a robotic cutting arm, for a quad copter which identifies and suppress the pests in horticultural crops like coconut, mango, banana, guava etc., using IR camera, sensors & pesticide tank attached to it. Atmospheric conditions of the field such as temperature differences and gases present over an area are sensed by the respective sensors attached to the quad copter. In addition to that the images of the tree are captured by IR camera. These images are examined using image processor and the graphical analysis of these data are done by matlab which will give us an idea, whether the affected parts should be cured by the pesticides or to be removed from the crop. The affected part, to be manipulated is spotted by using a camera. The robotic arm consists of the cutting unit as well as the pesticide sprayer. It possess three degrees of freedom operated by a remote controller. This facilitates the appropriate movement of the arm and locates it nearer to the specified area. The command is given to cut or spray according to the analysis done earlier.

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[Sampath. D, Sanjeeth Kumar.S, Santhosh.B, Sanjeev Chauhan.M, Vibishek. B and Vinodh. D. (2017); DEVELOPMENT OF DRONE WITH CUTTING ARM AND CROP DUSTER. Int. J. of Adv. Res. 5 (Aug). 17-23] (ISSN 2320-5407). www.journalijar.com

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Article DOI: 10.21474/IJAR01/5031      
DOI URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.21474/IJAR01/5031

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