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Shi, Y
Islam, M
Steele, K
Luck, J.D
Pitla, S
Ge, Y
Jhala, A
Knezevic, S
Joseph, K
Pitla, S
Muvva, V
Balabantaray, A
Pitla, S
Behera, S
Pitla, S
Muvva, V
Mwunguzi, H
Pitla, S
Joseph, K
Liew, C
Pitla, S
Kalra, A
Pitla, S
Luck, J.D
Topics
Drone Spraying
Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Agriculture
Robotics and Automation with Row and Horticultural Crops
Big Data, Data Mining and Deep Learning
Type
Oral
Poster
Year
2024
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1. Onboard Weed Identification and Application Test with Spraying Drone Systems

Commercial spraying drone systems nowadays have the ability to implement variable rate applications according to pre-loaded prescription maps. Efforts are needed to integrate sensing and computing technologies to realize on-the-go decision making such as those on the ground based spraying systems. Besides the understudied subject of drone spraying pattern and efficacy, challenges also exist in the decision making, control, and system integration with the limits on payload and flight endurance... Y. Shi, M. Islam, K. Steele, J.D. Luck, S. Pitla, Y. Ge, A. Jhala, S. Knezevic

2. Obstacle-aware UAV Flight Planning for Agricultural Applications

The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has emerged as one of the most important transformational tools in modern agriculture, offering unprecedented opportunities for crop monitoring, management, and optimization. To ensure effective and safe navigation in agricultural environments, robust obstacle avoidance capabilities are required to mitigate collision risks and to ensure efficient operations. Mission planners for UAVs are typically responsible for verifying that the vehicle is following... K. Joseph, S. Pitla, V. Muvva

3. AI Enabled Targeted Robotic Weed Management

In contemporary agriculture, effective weed management presents a considerable challenge necessitating innovative solutions. Traditional weed control methods often rely on the indiscriminate application of broad-spectrum herbicides, giving rise to environmental concerns and unintended crop damage. Our research addresses this challenge by introducing an innovative AI-enabled robotic system designed to identify and selectively target weeds in real-time. Utilizing the advanced Machine Learning technique... A. Balabantaray, S. Pitla

4. Advancements in Agrivoltaics: Autonomous Robotic Mowing for Enhanced Management in Solar Farms

Agrivoltaics – the co-location of solar energy installations and agriculture beneath or between rows of photovoltaic panels – has gained prominence as a sustainable and efficient approach to land use. The US has over 2.8 GW in Agrivoltaics, integrating crop cultivation with solar energy. However, effective vegetation management is critical for solar panel efficiency. Flat, sunny agricultural land accommodates solar panels and crops efficiently. The challenge lies in managing grass... S. Behera, S. Pitla

5. Implementation of Autonomous Material Re-filling Using Customized UAV for Autonomous Planting Operations

This project introduces a groundbreaking use case for customized Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in precision agriculture, focused on achieving holistic autonomy in agricultural operations through multi-robot collaboration.  Currently, commercially available drones for agriculture are restrictive in achieving collaborative autonomy with the growing number of unmanned ground robots, limiting their use to narrow and specific tasks.  The advanced payload capacities of multi-rotor UAVs,... V. Muvva, H. Mwunguzi, S. Pitla, K. Joseph

6. Wheat Spikes Counting Using Density Prediction Convolution Neural Network

Vision-based wheat spikes counting can be valuable for pre-harvest yield estimation for growers and researchers. In this study, wheat spike counting convolutions neural networks were implemented to solve the problem of vision-based wheat yield prediction problem. Encoder-decoder style convolutional neural networks (CNN) were developed with a Global Sum Pooling (GSP) layer as its output layer and trained to produce a density map which predicts the pixelwise wheat spikes density.  This... C. Liew, S. Pitla

7. AIR-N: AI-Enabled Robotic Precision Nitrogen Management Platform

The AI-Enabled Robotic Nitrogen Management (AIR-N) system is a versatile, cloud-based platform designed for precision nitrogen management in agriculture, targeting the reduction of nitrous oxide emissions as emphasized by the EPA. This end-to-end integrated system is adaptable to various cloud services, enhancing its applicability across different farming environments. AIR-N's framework consists of three primary components: a sensing layer for gathering data, a cloud layer where AI and machine... A. Kalra, S. Pitla, J.D. Luck