Designing of a Quadcopter Drone for Pesticides Sprinkling

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Ms. A.S. Lavanya, B. Yuvaraj, M. Ravanth, K. Sudeepthi Chowdary, D. Bhuvan,I. Vamsi

DOI: https://doi.org/10.46647/ijetms.2023.v07si01.015

ABSTRACT
There are too many technologies involved in today’s Agriculture, out of which spraying pesticides using drones is one of the emerging technologies. Manual pesticide spraying causes many harmful side effects to the personnel involved in the spraying process. The Exposure effects can range from mild skin irritation to birth defects, tumors, genetic changes, blood and nerve disorders, endocrine disruption, coma, or death. This paved the way to design a drone mounted with a spraying mechanism having a 12 V pump, 6 Liter storage capacity tank,4 nozzles to atomize in fine spay, a Quadcopter configuration frame, suitable landing frame, 4 Brushless Direct Current (BLDC) motors with suitable propellers to produce required thrust about 35 Kg (at 100% RPM) and suitable Lithium- Polymer (LI-PO) battery of current capacity 22000mAh and 22.2 V to meet necessary current and voltage requirements. A First-Person View (FPV) camera and transmitter can also be fixed in the drone for monitoring the spraying process and also for checking pest attacks on plants.

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How to Cite This Article:
MMs. A.S. Lavanya, B. Yuvaraj, M. Ravanth, K. Sudeepthi Chowdary, D. Bhuvan,I. Vamsi . Designing of a Quadcopter Drone for Pesticides Sprinkling . ijetms;7(s1):95-103. DOI: 10.46647/ijetms.2023.v07si01.015