Autonomous 3-D Aerial Navigation System for Precision Agriculture

Luís do Ó; Pedro Alexandre Prates; Ricardo Mendonça; André Lourenço; Francisco Marques; José Barata

doi:10.1109/ISIE.2019.8781165

Autonomous 3-D Aerial Navigation System for Precision Agriculture

Luís do Ó, Pedro Alexandre Prates, Ricardo Mendonça, André Lourenço, Francisco Marques, José Barata

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Abstract

The ever increase of human population brings the problem of how to accommodate the required food production and maintain system sustainability. The goal of precision agriculture is to offer farmers better management systems that improve production and the use of resources like water and fertiliser, resulting in better crop yields. This paper presents a 3-D navigation system for an unmanned aerial vehicle to be used in precision agriculture as a more reliable, flexible and affordable solution to gather useful data about the crops, compared to current methods such as satellite imagery. The solution was developed in the ROS platform and coupled with external software components, with the goal of making an autonomous multi-rotor aerial vehicle capable of operating in these kind of environments, completely exploring and surveying an agricultural field. Finally a simulator in Unity was constructed to support the development and testing of this navigation system.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings
Subtitle of host publication	2019 IEEE 28th International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE)
Place of Publication	New Jersey
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Pages	1144-1149
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9781728136660
ISBN (Print)	978-1-7281-3666-0
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ISIE.2019.8781165
Publication status	Published - Jun 2019
Event	28th IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics, ISIE 2019 - Vancouver, Canada Duration: 12 Jun 2019 → 14 Jun 2019 Conference number: 28th

Publication series

Name	IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE)
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Volume	2019-June
ISSN (Print)	2163-5137
ISSN (Electronic)	2163-5145

Conference

Conference	28th IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics, ISIE 2019
Abbreviated title	ISIE 2019
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Vancouver
Period	12/06/19 → 14/06/19

Keywords

Autonomous Navigation
Obstacle avoidance
Path Planning
Precision Agriculture
UAV

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do Ó, L., Alexandre Prates, P., Mendonça, R., Lourenço, A., Marques, F., & Barata, J. (2019). Autonomous 3-D Aerial Navigation System for Precision Agriculture. In Proceedings: 2019 IEEE 28th International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE) (pp. 1144-1149). Article 8781165 (IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE); Vol. 2019-June). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). https://doi.org/10.1109/ISIE.2019.8781165

do Ó, Luís ; Alexandre Prates, Pedro ; Mendonça, Ricardo et al. / Autonomous 3-D Aerial Navigation System for Precision Agriculture. Proceedings: 2019 IEEE 28th International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE). New Jersey : Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2019. pp. 1144-1149 (IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE)).

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Autonomous 3-D Aerial Navigation System for Precision Agriculture. / do Ó, Luís ; Alexandre Prates, Pedro ; Mendonça, Ricardo et al.
Proceedings: 2019 IEEE 28th International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE). New Jersey: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2019. p. 1144-1149 8781165 (IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE); Vol. 2019-June).

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do Ó L , Alexandre Prates P , Mendonça R , Lourenço A , Marques F , Barata J. Autonomous 3-D Aerial Navigation System for Precision Agriculture. In Proceedings: 2019 IEEE 28th International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE). New Jersey: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). 2019. p. 1144-1149. 8781165. (IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE)). doi: 10.1109/ISIE.2019.8781165

Autonomous 3-D Aerial Navigation System for Precision Agriculture

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