Portable semi-autonomous robot for agricultural insect pest recognition and elimination

• Main Authors: Aguila, John Dominic B., Go, Gian Kendrick T., Ong, Carl Nixon D., Orsos, Marc Lance J., Que-Unsu, Bryan Kenneth Q.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2023
• Subjects: Agricultural pests—Control; Agricultural innovation; Robots, Industrial; Computer vision; Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etdb_ece/35; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/context/etdb_ece/article/1032/viewcontent/Portable2_Semi_Autonomous_Robot_for_Agricultural_Insect_Pest_Recog.pdf
• Institution: De La Salle University

The agricultural sector is an important factor in society. The crops and livestock that can be harvested every year are the necessary materials needed for survival. The harvesting of crops could be a tedious task especially if not well maintained. Chances of missing a pest can be very high risking the crop itself. This project aims to ease the farmers when it comes to their tasks by introducing autonomy by creating a prototype that can move semi - autonomously and detect pests using computer vision. Using Jetson Nano, Arduino Mega, and Arduino Uno, and camera vision to recognize pests using YOLOv5, the system will be integrated to produce a system that can recognize, classify, and eliminate pests. A graphical user interface was developed to manually control the system and allow it to run autonomously.