Flight Parameter—Wind Vortex Characteristic Control Model of a Four-Multirotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Operating in Pesticide Spraying of Rice

Zhijie Liu, Gangao Fan, Siyan Ye, Zhixun Zhang, Han Wu, Bo Long, Huifen Li, Hui Cheng, Longmei Wu and Jiyu Li ()
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Zhijie Liu: College of Engineering, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China
Gangao Fan: College of Engineering, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China
Siyan Ye: College of Natural Resources and Environment, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China
Zhixun Zhang: College of Engineering, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China
Han Wu: College of Engineering, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China
Bo Long: College of Engineering, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China
Huifen Li: Rice Research Institute, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Guangzhou 510640, China
Hui Cheng: School of Computer Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510006, China
Longmei Wu: Rice Research Institute, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Guangzhou 510640, China
Jiyu Li: College of Engineering, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China

Agriculture, 2023, vol. 13, issue 4, 1-19

Abstract: The downwash airflow generated by the rotors can enhance the penetration of pesticide droplets, allowing them to penetrate deeper into the canopy and more comprehensively control pests. Downwash air will produce a “wind vortex” in plant canopy, and the parameters of a “wind vortex” represent the effect of pesticide deposition to a certain extent. To obtain the corresponding relationship between wind vortices and flight parameters and control the effect of pesticide spraying, this paper carried out unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) flight experiments in the field. Wind vortices were generated in rice canopy by downwash airflow, and the parameters of wind vortices were obtained by identifying wind-vortex images using the inter-frame difference method. The wind-vortex parameter control model was established, which can calculate the altitude and speed of the UAV when applying pesticide according to the target wind-vortex parameter. The deviations in the altitude were determined to be 0.67 and 0.43 m, and the deviations in the speed were 0.29 and 0.35 m/s during downwind and headwind UAV operations, respectively. The model relation functions were established, and their accuracies were found to be 97.1%, 92.3%, 69%, and 58% (downwind), and 97%, 78.4%, 62%, and 57% (upwind), respectively, indicating that downwind UAV operation leads to a clear relation between the wind-vortex parameters and the UAV-flight parameters. The model establishes the corresponding relationship between the wind-vortex parameters and flight parameters, which provides a theoretical basis for studying the precise application control method of UAV.

Keywords: model; rice–wind vortex; flight parameters; unmanned aerial vehicles; interframe difference method (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q1 Q10 Q11 Q12 Q13 Q14 Q15 Q16 Q17 Q18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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