The deployment of scalable, affordable swarm robot technology [Autonomous ground and aerial robots] has the immense potential and capability to significantly contribute to environment thereby benefit smart and precession agriculture.
Agri-Robots can enormously benefit the farmers through enhancement in the productivity, quality through smart executions. Smart agriculture accredited by the CASS technology, results in long-term perks through reduction of wastage and intelligent logistics, adequate use of fertilizers and water, thereby grossly reducing the use of pesticides.
The recent incline in smart farming and precision agriculture majorly focuses on bigger machines, solo or a few robots programmed and equipped to perform highly specialized grueling chores. Henceforth the evolution of Swarm Robotics Systems acts as a Universal platform for wider farming applications and serve as a robust technology.
Viksit Bharat Sankalp 2047- Led Approach of Swarm Technology
Envisioned greatly by our Prime Minister in his Developed India Resolution towards agriculture and rural development by 2047. Working towards enhancement and promoting the principle of swarm robotics is a cluster of unmanned aerial vehicles deployed to collaboratively and broadly monitor unmanned stretches of land and aerial robots designed to assist and expedite in collaborative smart agriculture tasks Agriculture. Swarm robotics principles, a cluster of small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) will be deployed collectively and mainly to monitor agriculture field say a sugar beet and integrative mapping the presence of volunteer potatoes, which forms the grave threat as they widely contaminating (e.g., late blight) and accelerate harmful soil nematodes. Hence there is a need to accurately map the actuality of volunteer potatoes to promote the weed control procedures. Precisely it of paramount importance to investigate when there is requirement to execute the weeding on which parts of the farm lands ranging over hundreds of hectares. The conventional practices being the labor-intensive practices.
The present multi-rotor UAV is equipped with the on-board HD camera with tera pixel, vision processing, digital signal processing high speed radio communications especially with IoT-LoRaWAN systems with precession protocols for safe and secure operations. Online-real time processing forms key for the detection of weed as the UAV fly proximity to the crops to collect the high precession images of HD quality. In-fact the operation must be performed only there is reinforcement of weed to optimally lessen the flight time and squandering for energy. So there is always a challenge between the accuracy and the cost of flying of UAVs. The concept of the Swarm Robotics is flying numerous UAVs which can concentrate on areas of interest i.e high precession operations.
Swarm robots build a smart mapping pattern on the agriculture field with semantic tagging system of different agriculture regions thereby transmits information about the proximity and quantity of weeds present in agriculture lands. Swarm robotics perform spatiotemporal operation of precession weeding monitor and there is always scalability to perform weed removal in future as well.
