Drones can be a crucial part in future farm automation and robotization. The drone technologies can offer relatively cheap, inclusive, and advanced smart solutions without being contact with the crops or soil. With drones, farmers can produce accurate measurements on demand of the interested phenomenon and can perform small-scale operations such as pesticide spraying or fertilizer spreading. While the automation and robotics in arable farming have continuously advanced, it is essential to also consider the role of different drone technologies that are so far developed separately from agricultural ground robotics. We developed eight versatile drone operation use cases to study the integration capabilities of the drone technologies with the future mission management of heterogeneous robotics. As results, we give an overview of the drone applications and present our data integration methodologies. With the mission control center approach, we developed four methodologies for the connectivity with the standard of Internet of Things messaging: connecting the autopilot of the drone directly enabling real-time data flow, connecting to the ground station, connecting the payload, or connecting by offline to the data processing service. As the drone technologies are developing rapidly, new solutions enabling third-party applications are supporting connectivity in the heterogeneous multirobot systems. However, with the drone operations, the safety issues can be more critical when compared with the ground robotics working in the same tasks.
Connecting Different Drone Operations with the Farm Robotic Management
International conference on FinDrones ; 2023 ; Salo, Finland February 15, 2023 - February 16, 2023
New Developments and Environmental Applications of Drones ; Chapter : 2 ; 33-41
2024-01-18
9 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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