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Innovative use of aerial and ground based drone swarms for high payload capacity and high agility within GPS denied envirnoment
About
Drones these days are looked at as a lucrative way to increase the efficiency of agriculture but the main challenges that remain are : 1) Low payload capacity 2) Absence of GPS in agricultural areas which is the primary source of guidance for any drone By using drone swarms the challenges could be offset to a very large extent. Drone swarm can actually use visual navigation much faster than individual drones, a drone swarming of land and air-based drones can actually increase the payload capacity to a very large extent using innovative combinations depending on the use case.
Key Benefits
1) High efficiency in surveying, seeding, monitoring, and reaping of crops. 2) Can easily work and adapt in GPS denied environments 3) Highly mechanized process with an accuracy usually exceeding that of humans 4) Drone swarm can actually carry a high payload keeping in mind the weight carrying capacity of the soil.
Applications
1) For the application of fertilizers to the crop with the help of ground and aerial-based UAV 2) Monitoring of fertilizer application status along with live updates on crop health