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Performance Evaluation of the UAV Sprayer in Controlling Brevicoryne Brassicae L. Pest in Canola [PDF]

Journal of Agricultural Machinery
IntroductionAbout 30% of the annual losses of agricultural products are caused by pests, diseases, and weeds. Spraying is currently the most common method of their control.
N. Bagheri, M. Safari, A. Sheikhi Garjan
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Improved Model and Strategy Optimization for Energy Management of the Power System in Range-Extended Sprayers Based on AVL-CRUISE and MATLAB/Simulink

Agriculture
The range-extended sprayer can effectively balance the requirements of economy and power performance, which represents the development and transformation trend of intelligent plant protection machinery in the future.
He Li, Yudong Guo, Shangshang Cheng, Tan Yao, Gongpei Cui   +4 more
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Intelligent pesticide application system for intercropping: development, challenges, and solutions based on monoculture machinery

Cogent Food & Agriculture
Intercropping is an efficient cultivation model that maximizes the utilization of land resources, and the intelligentization of plant protection machinery is a crucial aspect in promoting its widespread adoption.
Wei Zhong, Wanting Yang, Yunfei Wang, Xiang Dong, Xiaowen Wang, Weidong Jia, Mingxiong Ou   +6 more
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Intelligent Detection for Tunnel Shotcrete Spray Using Deep Learning and LiDAR

IEEE Access, 2020
Shotcrete spray is an indispensable process in tunnel construction. At present, the construction of tunnels in China is mainly depend on labor or mobile concrete sprayer, which has lots problems like time-consuming, low precision, and labor intensive. An
Luo Chun-Lei, Sha Hao, Ling Chun-Lai, Li Jin-Yang   +3 more
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Sprayer Boom Active Suspension Using Intelligent Active Force Control

, 2012
The control of sprayer boom undesired vibrations pose a great challenge to investigators due to various disturbances and conditions. Sprayer boom movements lead to reduce of spread efficiency and crop yield. This paper describes the design of a novel control method for an active suspension system applying proportional-integral-derivative (PID ...
M. Tahmasebi, R.A. Rahman, M. Mailah, M. Gohari   +3 more
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Weed control using vision systems and artificial intelligence as a new development direction for agricultural sprayers

Progress in Plant Protection, 2023
Manufacturers of agricultural sprayers are looking for innovative solutions to reduce the amount of crop protection products applied to crop fields while maintaining high treatment efficiency. Legal changes, economic factors and farmers’ awareness are the main elements driving the development of new solutions.
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Crop detection technologies, mechanical weeding executive parts and working performance of intelligent mechanical weeding: a review

Frontiers in Plant Science
Weeding is a key link in agricultural production. Intelligent mechanical weeding is recognized as environmentally friendly, and it profoundly alleviates labor intensity compared with manual hand weeding.
Meiqi Xiang, Minghao Qu, Gang Wang, Zhongyang Ma, Xuegeng Chen, Zihao Zhou, Jiangtao Qi, Xiaomei Gao, Hailan Li, Honglei Jia   +9 more
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Research on Path Planning and Control of Intelligent Spray Carts for Greenhouse Sprayers

Vehicles
To address the challenges of inefficient path planning, discontinuous trajectories, and inadequate safety margins in autonomous spraying vehicles for greenhouse environments, this paper proposes a hierarchical motion control architecture. At the global path planning level, the heuristic function of the A* algorithm was redesigned to integrate channel ...
Junchong Zhou, Yi Zheng, Xianghua Zheng, Kuan Peng   +3 more
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Spray deposition and coverage on nursery trees from precision applications of a laser-guided variable-rate spray system

Smart Agricultural Technology
A conventional air-assisted sprayer was retrofitted with a laser-guided variable-rate spray control system, allowing operation in either constant-rate mode (CRM) or variable-rate mode (VRM) to improve spray efficiency.
K. You, H. Zhu, H. Güler, S. Mehta
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Fuzzy PID Speed Control System for Sprayer Vehicles Based on Canopy Density

Algorithms
This study proposes an intelligent spraying vehicle speed control system integrating real-time canopy density detection with a fuzzy PID control algorithm.
Yanxin Wang, Nwabueze Emekwuru, Chengqian Jin, Fernando Auat Cheein   +3 more
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