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Designing and development of agricultural rovers for vegetable harvesting and soil analysis

PLoS One. 2024 Jun 21;19(6):e0304657. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0304657. eCollection 2024.

Abstract

To address the growing demand for sustainable agriculture practices, new technologies to boost crop productivity and soil health must be developed. In this research, we propose designing and building an agricultural rover capable of autonomous vegetable harvesting and soil analysis utilizing cutting-edge deep learning algorithms (YOLOv5). The precision and recall score of the model was 0.8518% and 0.7624% respectively. The rover uses robotics, computer vision, and soil sensing technology to perform accurate and efficient agricultural tasks. We go over the rover's hardware and software, as well as the soil analysis system and the tomato ripeness detection system using deep learning models. Field experiments indicate that this agricultural rover is effective and promising for improving crop management and soil monitoring in modern agriculture, hence achieving the UN's SDG 2 Zero Hunger goals.

MeSH terms

  • Agriculture* / methods
  • Algorithms
  • Crop Production / methods
  • Crops, Agricultural / growth & development
  • Deep Learning
  • Robotics
  • Soil* / chemistry
  • Solanum lycopersicum / growth & development
  • Vegetables* / growth & development

Substances

  • Soil

Grants and funding

The authors received no specific funding for this work.