A state-of-the-art analysis of obstacle avoidance methods from the perspective of an agricultural sprayer UAV's operation scenario

S Ahmed, B Qiu, F Ahmad, CW Kong, H Xin - Agronomy, 2021 - mdpi.com
Over the last decade, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), also known as drones, have been
broadly utilized in various agricultural fields, such as crop management, crop monitoring …

UAV environmental perception and autonomous obstacle avoidance: A deep learning and depth camera combined solution

D Wang, W Li, X Liu, N Li, C Zhang - Computers and Electronics in …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract In agriculture, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have shown great potential for
plant protection. Uncertain obstacles randomly distributed in the unstructured farmland …

Review of agricultural spraying technologies for plant protection using unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)

H Chen, Y Lan, BK Fritz, WC Hoffmann… - International Journal of …, 2021 - ijabe.org
With changing climate and farmland ecological conditions, pest outbreaks in agricultural
landscapes are becoming more frequent, increasing the need for improved crop production …

Applications and prospects of agricultural unmanned aerial vehicle obstacle avoidance technology in China

L Wang, Y Lan, Y Zhang, H Zhang, MN Tahir, S Ou… - Sensors, 2019 - mdpi.com
With the steady progress of China's agricultural modernization, the demand for agricultural
machinery for production is widely growing. Agricultural unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) …

Unmanned aerial vehicles in agriculture: A review of perspective of platform, control, and applications

J Kim, S Kim, C Ju, HI Son - Ieee Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
For agricultural applications, regularized smart-farming solutions are being considered,
including the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The UAVs combine information and …

Development status and key technologies of plant protection UAVs in China: a review

P Hu, R Zhang, J Yang, L Chen - Drones, 2022 - mdpi.com
Plant protection unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) play a crucial role in agricultural aviation
services. In recent years, plant protection UAVs, which improve the accuracy and eco …

A novel framework for multiple ground target detection, recognition and inspection in precision agriculture applications using a UAV

S Khan, M Tufail, MT Khan, ZA Khan, J Iqbal… - Unmanned …, 2022 - World Scientific
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have been recently used for different civilian applications
such as remote sensing, search, and rescue (SAR), precision agriculture (PA), etc. A UAVs …

A vision-based autonomous aerial spray system for precision agriculture

B Dai, Y He, F Gu, L Yang, J Han… - 2017 ieee international …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the past several years, UAV has been extensively used in agriculture. However, the
efficiency is still not as high as desired and the phenomenon of pesticide pollution is still …

Vision-based adaptive variable rate spraying approach for unmanned aerial vehicles

L Wang, Y Lan, X Yue, K Ling, Z Cen, Z Cheng… - International Journal of …, 2019 - ijabe.org
The rapid developments of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) and vision sensor are
contributing a great reformation in precision agriculture. Farmers can fly their UAV spraying …

Rapid development of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) for plant protection and application technology in China

X He - Outlooks on Pest Management, 2018 - ingentaconnect.com
As a consequence of changes in population in China, the trend of labor shortage for
agricultural production has grown and will continue in future. Acceleration of agricultural …