Swarm Robotics as a Solution to Crops Inspection for Precision Agriculture

Carbone, Carlos; Garibaldi, Oscar; Kurt, Zohre; Carbone, Carlos; Garibaldi, Oscar; Kurt, Zohre

dc.contributor		en-US
dc.creator	Carbone, Carlos
dc.creator	Garibaldi, Oscar
dc.creator	Kurt, Zohre
dc.creator	Carbone, Carlos
dc.creator	Garibaldi, Oscar
dc.creator	Kurt, Zohre
dc.date	2018-02-11
dc.date.accessioned	2018-02-23T17:16:18Z
dc.date.available	2018-02-23T17:16:18Z
dc.identifier	https://knepublishing.com/index.php/KnE-Engineering/article/view/1459
dc.identifier	10.18502/keg.v3i1.1459
dc.identifier.uri	http://ridda2.utp.ac.pa/handle/123456789/4246
dc.description	This paper summarizes the concept of swarm robotics and its applicability to crop inspections. To increase the agricultural yield it is essential to monitor the crop health. Hence, precision agriculture is becoming a common practice for farmers providing a system that can inspect the state of the plants (Khosla and others, 2010). One of the rising technologies used for agricultural inspections is the use of unmaned air vehicles (UAVs) which are used to take aerial pictures of the farms so that the images could be processed to extract data about the state of the crops (Das et al., 2015). For this process both fixed wings and quadrotors UAVs are used with a preference over the quadrotor since it’s easier to operate and has a milder learning curve compared to fixed wings (Kolodny, 2017). UAVs require battery replacement especially when the environmental conditions result in longer inspection times (“Agriculture - Maximize Yields with Aerial Imaging,” n.d., “Matrice 100 - DJI Wiki,” n.d.). As a result, inspection systems for crops using commercial quadrotors are limited by the quadrotor´s maximum flight speed, maximum flight height, quadrotor´s battery time, crops area, wind conditions, etc. (“Mission Estimates,” n.d.).Keywords: Swarm Robotics, Precision Agriculture, Unmanned Air Vehicle, Quadrotor, inspection.	en-US
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dc.language	eng
dc.publisher	KnE Publishing	en-US
dc.relation	https://knepublishing.com/index.php/KnE-Engineering/article/view/1459/3269
dc.relation	https://knepublishing.com/index.php/KnE-Engineering/article/view/1459/3521
dc.relation	https://knepublishing.com/index.php/KnE-Engineering/article/view/1459/3522
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rights	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.source	2518-6841
dc.source	KnE Engineering; 6th Engineering, Science and Technology Conference - Panama 2017 (ESTEC 2017); 552-562	en-US
dc.title	Swarm Robotics as a Solution to Crops Inspection for Precision Agriculture	en-US
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