Agricultural robots can perform various agricultural tasks autonomously such as spraying, mechanical weed control, fruit picking, monitoring farms, and allowing farmers to increase efficiency and precision. Various types of agricultural robots are used for tasks like harvesting (Demeter robot), weed control, forestry work, horticulture, and fruit picking. Agricultural robots have advantages like collecting crop samples close to plants, applying chemicals precisely, and working continuously without needing rest. However, challenges include the costs of the technology and ensuring periodic human presence in fields. Future agricultural robots may include flying microbots and exoskeleton suits to assist with labor-intensive tasks.
This is the new technology to increase food production mostly horticulture production and also used in Agronomic crop production. This technology can overcome many problems which create problems at farm level as well as storage level.
Agricultural Robots or agribot is a robot deployed for agricultural purposes. The main area of application of robots in agriculture is at the harvesting stage. Fruit picking robots, driverless tractor / sprayer, and sheep shearing robots are designed to replace human labor. In most cases, a lot of factors have to be considered (e.g., the size and color of the fruit to be picked) before the commencement of a task. Robots can be used for other horticultural tasks such as pruning, weeding, spraying and monitoring. Robots can also be used in livestock applications (livestock robotics) such as automatic milking, washing and castrating. Robots like these have many benefits for the agricultural industry, including a higher quality of fresh produce, lower production costs, and a smaller need for manual labor.
This is the new technology to increase food production mostly horticulture production and also used in Agronomic crop production. This technology can overcome many problems which create problems at farm level as well as storage level.
Agricultural Robots or agribot is a robot deployed for agricultural purposes. The main area of application of robots in agriculture is at the harvesting stage. Fruit picking robots, driverless tractor / sprayer, and sheep shearing robots are designed to replace human labor. In most cases, a lot of factors have to be considered (e.g., the size and color of the fruit to be picked) before the commencement of a task. Robots can be used for other horticultural tasks such as pruning, weeding, spraying and monitoring. Robots can also be used in livestock applications (livestock robotics) such as automatic milking, washing and castrating. Robots like these have many benefits for the agricultural industry, including a higher quality of fresh produce, lower production costs, and a smaller need for manual labor.
This is based on a research study on the application of drone technology in India and showcase the benefits of its applicability to the agricultural sector in rendering services which in the past tends to be very tedious in executing.
How are drones used for farming? The use of drones in agriculture is the future. Heavy lift drones capable of crop dusting and drones equipped with multispectral sensors will change the way in which farming is done.
Initially drones were designed only for military purpose. Since last decade drones are making a marvelous change in agricultural sector. Due to the increasing demand for agricultural labors, need for the increase in food production and food security, drones can be employed to bring the next revolution in agriculture. Hence, drones can be used by the Research Institutions, Agricultural Universities and State Agricultural Department to bring the future changes.
Agriculture 4.0- The future of farming technology Dishant James
The World Government Summit recently came out with an agenda to improve agricultural technologies by integrating farming with industry 4.0. The outcome would be a fourth agricultural revolution or Agriculture 4.0
This is based on a research study on the application of drone technology in India and showcase the benefits of its applicability to the agricultural sector in rendering services which in the past tends to be very tedious in executing.
How are drones used for farming? The use of drones in agriculture is the future. Heavy lift drones capable of crop dusting and drones equipped with multispectral sensors will change the way in which farming is done.
Initially drones were designed only for military purpose. Since last decade drones are making a marvelous change in agricultural sector. Due to the increasing demand for agricultural labors, need for the increase in food production and food security, drones can be employed to bring the next revolution in agriculture. Hence, drones can be used by the Research Institutions, Agricultural Universities and State Agricultural Department to bring the future changes.
Agriculture 4.0- The future of farming technology Dishant James
The World Government Summit recently came out with an agenda to improve agricultural technologies by integrating farming with industry 4.0. The outcome would be a fourth agricultural revolution or Agriculture 4.0
Current methods for off-road navigation using vehicle and terrain models to predict future vehicle response are limited by the accuracy of the models they use and can suffer if the world is unknown or if conditions change and the models become inaccurate .In this paper, an adaptive approach is presented that closes the loop around the vehicle predictions. This approach is applied to an autonomous vehicle known as field robots used in agriculture.
Agriculter in robotics are the future technology which depends to grow the agriculture and develop the agri products and food likes paddy, carrot, etc.,,
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The use of drones in livestock management has become increasingly popular, as they can provide valuable data on herd health, behavior, and location. Drones can be equipped with cameras, sensors, and GPS technology to monitor grazing patterns, identify sick or injured animals, and locate lost livestock. This helps farmers and ranchers make more informed decisions about herd management, leading to better animal welfare and higher yields.
Drones for Livestock Management- Best Practices to Follow.Techugo
A drone can plant seeds in the soil instead of using old methods. Although drones are relatively new for seed planting, many drone app development companies are trying this method.
Drone Seed, for example, is a startup that uses drone technology to plant crops. Unscrewed aircraft can spray crops with water, fertilizers, or herbicides. This reduces labor costs and time.
Drones for Livestock Management- Best Practices to Follow.Techugo
Drones are rapidly gaining popularity in the crop production industry. Farmers use drones to spot weeds, pests, and other nutrient deficiencies. Although drones are still being adopted slowly in cattle production, they will be more famous for drones for livestock management. Drones can be used to help their ranches from far away. To know more, visit the post.
Selective herbicides control specific weed species while leaving the desired crop relatively unharmed, while non-selective herbicides (sometimes called total weed killers in commercial products) can be used to clear waste ground, industrial and construction sites, railways and railway embankments as they kill all plant material with which they come into contact. Apart from selective/non-selective, other important distinctions include persistence (also known as residual action: how long the product stays in place and remains active), means of uptake (whether it is absorbed by above-ground foliage only, through the roots, or by other means), and mechanism of action (how it works). Historically, products such as common salt and other metal salts were used as herbicides, however, these have gradually fallen out of favor, and in some countries, a number of these are banned due to their persistence in soil, and toxicity and groundwater contamination concerns. Herbicides have also been used in warfare and conflict.
Being sprayed onto crops weed killer machine is good to remove weeds so this is used edit
In a domestic gardens, methods of weed control include covering an area of ground with a material that creates an unsuitable environment for weed growth, known as a weed mat. For example, several layers of wet newspaper prevent light from reaching plants beneath, which kills them.
In the case of black plastic, the greenhouse effect kills the plants. Although the black plastic sheet is effective at preventing weeds that it covers, it is difficult to achieve complete coverage. Eradicating persistent perennials may require the sheets to be left in place for at least two seasons.[citation needed]
Some plants are said to produce root exudates that suppress herbaceous weeds. Tagetes minuta is claimed to be effective against couch and ground elder,[5] whilst a border of comfrey is also said to act as a barrier against the invasion of some weeds including couch. A 5–10 centimetres (2.0–3.9 in) layer of wood chip mulch prevents some weeds from sprouting.
Gravel can serve as an inorganic mulch.
Irrigation is sometimes used as a weed control measure such as in the case of paddy fields to kill any plant other than the water-tolerant rice crop.
Manual removal
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Tools used for amateur weeding include spades and gloves
Weeds are removed manually in large parts of India.
Many gardeners still remove weeds by manually pulling them out of the ground, making sure to include the roots that would otherwise allow some to re-sprout.
Hoeing off weed leaves and stems as soon as they appear can eventually weaken and kill perennials, although this will require persistence in the case of plants such as bindweed. Nettle infestations can be tackled by cutting back at least three times a year, repeated over a three-year period. Bramble can be dealt with in a similar way.
A highly successful, mostly manual, removal programme of weed control in natural bush land has been us
APPLICATIONS OF DRONES IN AGRICULTURE IN INDIASGowriShankar5
India is an agriculture dependent country. Most of the Indian population belongs to farming families. But in recent times, due to lack of sufficient resources and lack of water, agriculture is slowly declining. Most of the people who were engaged in agriculture have started doing different occupations. Due to the development of technology, people are decreasing towards agriculture. In this situation, some farmers are improving agriculture by using the same technology. According to a recent report, a farmer from Kanchipuram has simplified his farming by using technology. So far, you have seen drones used only for aerial shots in movies, gatherings, and weddings. Here, a farmer has used such drones for his agriculture (Drones in agriculture). He uses these drones to spray fertilizers and pesticides on his crops. Many farmers have recently increased their use of drones for their farming. Drones are now being used in agriculture for various reasons, apart from spraying fertilizers and pesticides, watering and spreading seeds. Also, these drones can be customized and used to monitor water levels and even monitor crop growth. Drones have entered the Indian market very rapidly. In August 2021, when the Ministry of Civil Aviation liberalized drones, it applied a policy that allowed certain types of drones to be flown without prior approval. Subsequently, the Department of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare issued a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for the use of drones in spraying pesticides in agricultural fields. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles find special mention in the Union Budget 2022-23 and this flight has been reduced till February 2022. Also, Prime Minister Modi flagged off 100 Kisan drones this year as part of the 'Drone Kisan Yatra'. On drone spraying of agricultural inputs for farmers Central and state governments in the coming times by creating awareness steps will be taken to provide subsidized drones.
An agricultural robot is a robot deployed for agricultural purposes. Emerging applications of robots or drones in agriculture include weed control, cloud seeding, planting seeds, harvesting, environmental monitoring, and soil analysis.
Agricultural robots automate slow, repetitive, and dull tasks for farmers, allowing them to focus more on improving overall production yields. Some of the most common robots in agriculture are used for: Harvesting and picking
Recent techniques and Modern tools in weed managementAshokh Aravind S
weed science, emerging issues in weed science, new tools and improvements in weed management, future advancements in weed management, biological weed control, harvest weed seed control
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
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Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
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GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
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Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
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The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
2. Introduction
Robots
• A robot is a mechanical, artificial agent and is
usually an electromechanical system. It is a
device that, because of software
programming, makes complicated tasks easy
to perform.
Vitirover solar robotcutting grass and weeds in
vines
3. Definition
Agricultural robotics
• Agricultural robotics is the use of automation
in bio systems such as agriculture, forestry,
and fisheries. It is replacing the conventional
techniques to perform the same tasks, with
efficiency.
• Applying automation to agriculture has helped
create several advancements to the industry
while helping farmers save money and time.
4. Difference between automized
and conventional techniques
Conventional techniques depend on
human power and old techniques
Robots can work non stop, humans need
rest
Human may not be able to work in
hazardous environments
large sized wheels required in muddy soils,
robots small sized wheels perform well.
Robot scouts get detailed info about crop
Robots can detect presence of diseases,
weeds, insect infestations and other stress
conditions.
The lightweight of the robots do not
compact the soil as larger machinery does
5. Why Agricultural Robots are
preferred
• We can expect the robots to perform
agricultural operations autonomously such as
spraying and mechanical weed control, fruit
picking, watching the farms day & night for an
effective report, allowing farmers to reduce
the environmental impact, increase precision
and efficiency, and manage individual plants in
novel ways.
6. Techniques involving
Agricultural Robots
• Processes like
ploughing, seeding, fertilizing, weeding, harve
sting, spraying etc. require large amount man
power. Hence in order to reduce this
need, and save time and money, robots are
employed
API Platform
MF- Scamp robots for scouting, weeding and
harvesting
7. Ploughing
(Seed bed
preparation)
Seed
mapping
• primary process; the top soil is mixed and
turned to prepare a seed bed, burying the
surface crop residue.
• Recording geospatial position of each seed as
it goes under ground is “seed mapping”
• checking and counting seed by placing an
infrared sensor below the seed chute. Seed
cuts infrared beam and triggers a data logger
that records a position orientation of seeder.
8. Reseeding
Seed
placement
• This is the concept of being able to
identify where the seed was not placed
and can automatically place another seed
in same position.
• Placing seeds so that they get maximum
air, light, water
• a hexagonal or triangular seeding pattern
, or less space in row n more between
rows may be applied by using robots
11. Field robots work with respect to environment and
medium. They change themselves according to the
required condition.
Mobile robots are those which posses mobility with
respect to a medium. The entire system moves with
respect to environment.
12. Demeter- Robot farmer
•Demeter is a robot that can cut crops it looks like a normal
harvester, but can drive by itself without any human
supervision.
•Demeter has cameras on it that can detect the difference
between the crop that has been cut and crop that hasn’t.
•This information tells it where to drive, where to put its cutter
head, and when it has come to the end of a crop row so it can
turn around.
•The Demeter robot can also be driven by remote control. Or,
Demeter can be taught a path, and then follow that path using
its on board sensors and computer control systems.
13.
14. The Demeter system strives to provide three levels of
automation:
•First, a “cruise control” feature, which will
automatically steer, drive and control the harvesting
header, will be provided to harvester operators.
•“drone” feature will be provided, allowing one
operator to remotely control several harvesters.
•Thirdly, a fully autonomous machine will be
developed that will allow a harvester to completely
harvest a field with no human supervision.
15.
16. Weed Controller
•A four-wheel-drive weed-seeking robot was
developed and the task of the weed-removing device
is to remove or destroy the weed.
•Crops that are grown in rows can be weeded by
running a hoe between the crop rows.
•An intelligent hoe uses vision systems to identify the
rows of crops, and steer itself accurately between
them, considerably reducing the need for herbicides
•Weed identification is based on colour photography.
The equipped robot helps production of weed maps
identifying plant.
17.
18.
19. Robotic gantry
•Traditional spraying can be very efficient,
especially when they cover large areas.
•The robotic gantry could apply both liquid
sprays and fertilizer and be able to regulate
itself according to current weather conditions.
•If it became too windy then the gantry could
just stop and wait until conditions improved.
•Sensing systems could be mounted on a trolley
that could move along the spray boom as in the
crop scouting section.
20. Forest Robots
Treebot:
•A fearless mobile robot is helping scientists monitor environmental
changes in forests.
•Treebot consists of combine networked sensors, a web cam, and a
wireless net link.
•It is solar-powered and moves up and down special cables to take
samples and measurements for vital analysis.
•It is very important in the biology community to understand the
interaction between the atmosphere and the forest environment.
•But 90% of all interaction between the environment and
atmospheric conditions happens high up in the forest canopy.
•The Treebot helps by being stealthy enough to travel through the
forest canopy along specially constructed cabling, night and day.
21. Forester robot
•This is a special type of
robot used for cutting up
of wood, tending trees,
and pruning of X- mas
tree and for harvesting
pulp and hard wood and
in the forests.
•It employs a special jaws
and axes for chopping the
branch.
22. •Robot In Horticulture
•Robo is used in lawns to cut the grass in lawns.
•It can cut any lawn, regardless of its geometric
shape.
•In automatic mode, a fully charged Robo-mower can
typically mow a lawn of 2500 to 3200 sq. ft.,
depending on the number of obstacles in its path,
slopes, height of grass, humidity, etc.
•It operates electrically on rechargeable batteries,
mulching blades, whisper quiet operation and
without any pollution.
23. •Fruit picking robot:
•The fruit picking robots need to pick ripe fruit
without damaging the branches or leaves of
the tree.
•The robots must be able to access all areas of
the tree being harvested.
•The robot can distinguish between fruit and
leaves by using video image capturing.
•The camera is mounted on the robot arm,
and the colours detected are compared with
properties stored in memory.
•If a match is obtained, the fruit is picked.
24. •If fruit is hidden by leaves, an air jet can be
used to blow leaves out the way so a clearer
view and access can be obtained.
•It can move, in, out, up, down, and in
cylindrical and spherical motion patterns.
•The pressure applied to the fruit is
sufficient for removal from the tree, but not
enough to crush the fruit.
•The shape of the gripper depends on the
fruit being picked.
25.
26.
27. Advantages of Using Agricultural
Agricultural robots are capable of collecting crop and
soil samples.
They are small in size, which allows them to be able to
accumulate data close to the crops.
They are also capable of mowing, spraying pesticides,
finding diseases or parasites, and performing mechanical
weeding.
Agricultural robots may have cameras and sensors which
detect weeds and other forms of stress.
Their sensors are used to spray only the area affected
by the parasite instead of the entire crop
28. This has helped to protect our environment by
reducing the amount of harmful chemicals released
in the air.
Not only are they used in agriculture, but also in
forestry, green house, horticulture etc.
Farmers are interested in using robots to tend fields
of crops, pick fruit, or even maintain animal.
Experiments are being done to produce world’s
smallest, weightless robot for using them as scouts in
fields.
29. Using robots means the opportunity of replacing human
operators, which provides effective solutions with return on
investment.
Robots are useful when the duties, that need be
performed, are potentially harmful for the safety or the health
of the workers, or when more conservative issues are granted
by robotics.
Heavy chemicals or drugs dispensers, manure or fertilizers
spreaders, etc. are activities more and more concerned by
the deployment of unmanned options.
The Robot does not get sick or tired and does not need time
off.
30. Because machines can be made lighter and
cheaper if the drivers seat, controls and cab
can be eliminated.
It can be used in various fields like
agriculture, medicine, mining, and space
research .
It can be sent to another planet to study their
environmental conditions.
The machines could easily work around
trees, rocks, ponds and other obstacles.
Small suburban fields could be worked almost
as efficiently as large tracts of land.
31. Disadvantages
One of the key disadvantages of driverless
machines for agriculture is liabilityAccess to
the technology.
Not currently scale neutral.
Better sensors would help.
Improved scouting programs would be
essential.
Nevertheless, a periodic human presence
in the field is likely to be necessary for the
near future.
Robots could change the culture /emotional
appeal of agriculture.
Energy issues, costly.
34. FLYING MICRO REBOTS
• Scientists from around the world are designing midget robots to
scout battlefields, search for victims trapped in rubble, and
record images in agricultural fields.
• The world’s smallest micro robot was placed in the geniuses
book of world record and consists of propeller by which it can fly
to heights these features include the ability to zero in and land
precisely on a potato chip and then flap their wings to buzz off
with blazing speed.
• It is expected that it can be used in agriculture for the control
of weed and insects.
35. Agriculture Robot Suit
Agriculture Robot Suit
• The robot suit is designed specifically to help out with tough
agricultural work like pulling radishes.
•
The suit has eight motors fitted over the shoulders, elbows,
back and knees to provide a power boost to the wearer.
• The current model weighs 55 pounds and uses 16 sensors to
function.
• Designers are hoping to continue to work with the suit to reduce
the weight.
36. Vitirover Solar Robot Used
In Vines To Cuts Grass and
Weeds
• The robots are used from a while in agriculture and in future the
numbers of robots used in different agricultural fields will be
increased.
• A French company designs a smart autonomous robot called
Vitirover.
• The little robot uses the sun to power the electrical motors.
• Since the vineyard is large it was a bad idea to store the energy
into a battery and when the battery has lower power to return at
base for recharging the battery.
• Using a solar panel this agricultural autonomous machine could
work for hundred hours without pause.
• It could cuts grass and weeds to within 2-to-3 cm of vine and
has a speed that allows him to work 500 meters per hour.
37.
38. • For owner is important to not damage the vines and the sensors is
equipped with sensors that keeps the grass cutting blades away
from vines. Vitirover could work in slopes of 15% and uses GPS
coordinates for each parcel when the robot should work.
40. CONCLUSION
This equipment may
be in our future, but
there are important
reasons for thinking
that it may not be
just replacing the
human driver with a
computer.
In agriculture, the
opportunities for robotenhanced productivity
are immense – and the
robots are appearing on
farms in various guises
and in increasing
numbers.
41. Continue…
It may mean a
rethinking of how crop
production is done.
Crop production may
be done better and
cheaper with a swarm
of small machines than
with a few large ones.
One of the advantages of the
smaller machines is that they may
be more acceptable to the non-farm
community. The jobs in agriculture
are a drag, dangerous, require
intelligence and quick, though
highly repetitive decisions hence
robots can be rightly substituted
with human operator.
42. The higher quality products can
be sensed by machines
(colour.firmness, weight, densit
y, ripeness, size, shape)
accurately. Robots can improve
the quality of our lives but there
are downsides.