The declining bee population poses a threat to many aspects of life on earth as they are essential pollinators responsible for pollinating 80% of flowering plants. Our team aims to supplement the declining bee population with compact drones capable of pollinating flowers autonomously. The goal of this project is to create a system capable of locating sunflowers within a region, and transferring pollen between them. The proposed solution consists of a custom 3D-printed drone body, a flight controller, an on-board processor, an actuated end-effector, and a camera. The team intends to incorporate all of these features together into one system capable of navigating a bounded region, detecting and approaching sunflowers, and transferring pollen between them using the end effector.

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Creator

• Seker, Zeynep
• Craigie, Connor A.
• Guglielmino, Peter C.
• Stallings, Nathan A.

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 22611
• E-project-050621-013132

Mot-clé

• pollination
• drone
• ROS
• navigation
• computer vision
• autonomous

Advisor

• Lewin, Greg
• Pinciroli, Carlo
• Onal, Cagdas

Year

• 2021

Date created

• 2021-05-06

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Robotics Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Dernière modification

• 2021-08-29