Design and Implementation of Agricultural Drone for Areca Nut Farms

摘要

The user-friendly agricultural drone has been implemented successfully for helping farmers. The developed semi-autonomous system is a fungicide spraying drone for agricultural purpose particularly for areca nuts during monsoon seasons to avoid the fungus attack, which helps the farmer to spray the fungicide onto every tree so that it reduces his work which can evenly spray all over his farm. The only work of the farmers will be only to take the drone up to 50 feet by using a RC transmitter after that it will autonomously spray the fungicide all over the farm. We have a Raspberry Pi camera attached which captures a live video transmission which helps the farmers to increase the visualize that helps him to judge whether the part of areca nut is sprayed or not, so that fungicide is saved and fully sprayed.