Specialists of the Moscow Aviation Institute (MAI) developed two drones for agriculture – “Agroscout” and “Agrodron”.
The first is designed to assess the state of fields. A drone equipped with a high-definition camera flies over a specific area and takes several pictures at a height of one meter.
Yury Bukharev, director of the Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Center of the Moscow Aviation Institute, says that artificial intelligence processes the information transmitted by the drone, analyzes the condition of the crops, detects the presence of weeds, gives opinions and recommendations. According to him, a prototype of the system has already been created.
“Agrodron” is designed both for high-precision spraying of plant protection products such as pesticides, herbicides, insecticides and fungicides, and for spraying fields with organic fertilizers, ground food and growth hormones. Additionally, the drone can be used for aerial seeding.
Bukharev states that it is easy to bring an unmanned aerial vehicle weighing up to 100 kilograms, which can carry a payload of up to 30 kilograms, by car. In addition, you can operate several devices at the same time. The first prototype of the “Agrodron” was assembled, the routing software for the drone was written. It will pass flight tests in the coming months.
Source: Ferra
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