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Design and development of a navigation system for agricultural aerial spraying

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 2017

M. J. Zhang ,
R. R. Zhang ,
G. Xu  and
L. P. Chen
M. J. Zhang
Affiliation:
National Research Center of Intelligent Equipment for Agriculture, Beijing 100097, China Beijing Research Center of Intelligent Equipment for Agriculture, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forest Science, Beijing 100097, China
R. R. Zhang*
Affiliation:
National Research Center of Intelligent Equipment for Agriculture, Beijing 100097, China Beijing Research Center of Intelligent Equipment for Agriculture, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forest Science, Beijing 100097, China
G. Xu
Affiliation:
National Research Center of Intelligent Equipment for Agriculture, Beijing 100097, China Beijing Research Center of Intelligent Equipment for Agriculture, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forest Science, Beijing 100097, China
L. P. Chen
Affiliation:
National Research Center of Intelligent Equipment for Agriculture, Beijing 100097, China Beijing Research Center of Intelligent Equipment for Agriculture, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forest Science, Beijing 100097, China
*
†E-mail: zhangrr@nercita.org.cn
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Abstract

Problems in the process of manned agricultural aerial spraying, such as heavy workload in route planning, overlaps or omissions in spraying seriously reduce the efficiency of spraying and utilization rate of pesticides. This paper presents the design and development of a navigation system for manned agricultural aerial spraying based on an industrial tablet PC. This system provides three key functions: route planning, spraying navigation and real-time evaluation of spraying quality. The test and application results show that this system has high efficiency in route planning, and the average coverage rate of spraying could reach as high as 96%. Its application effect is remarkable, and as a result, this system can meet the demand of manned agricultural aerial spraying in route planning and navigation.

Keywords

navigationroute planningaerial sprayingmanned aerial vehicle
Type
Agri-engineering
Information
Advances in Animal Biosciences , Volume 8 , Special Issue 2: Papers presented at the 11th European Conference on Precision Agriculture (ECPA 2017), John McIntyre Centre, Edinburgh, UK, July 16–20 2017 , July 2017 , pp. 870 - 875
Copyright
© The Animal Consortium 2017 

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