Development status and key technologies of plant protection UAVs in China: a review

P Hu, R Zhang, J Yang, L Chen - Drones, 2022 - mdpi.com
Plant protection unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) play a crucial role in agricultural aviation
services. In recent years, plant protection UAVs, which improve the accuracy and eco …

Progress in agricultural unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) applied in China and prospects for Poland

L Wang, X Huang, W Li, K Yan, Y Han, Y Zhang… - Agriculture, 2022 - mdpi.com
With the acceleration of the Belt and Road Initiative, Poland–China agricultural trade has
increasingly strengthened, but there is little exchange or cooperation in agricultural …

Current status and trends of plant protection UAV and its spraying technology in China

Y Lan, S Chen - International Journal of Precision Agricultural Aviation, 2018 - ijpaa.org
As one of the important components of agricultural aviation industry in China, plant
protection unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been developed rapidly in recent years.  …

CURI-YOLOv7: A lightweight YOLOv7tiny target detector for citrus trees from UAV remote sensing imagery based on embedded device

Y Zhang, X Fang, J Guo, L Wang, H Tian, K Yan, Y Lan - Remote Sensing, 2023 - mdpi.com
Data processing of low-altitude remote sensing visible images from UAVs is one of the hot
research topics in precision agriculture aviation. In order to solve the problems of large …

Numerical simulation of airflow field from a six–rotor plant protection drone using lattice Boltzmann method

H Zhang, L Qi, Y Wu, EM Musiu, Z Cheng… - Biosystems …, 2020 - Elsevier
Highlights•Airflow field of drone plays a key role in droplets delivery during the spraying.•The
airflow field was simulated successfully by LBM.•Flight speed and altitude had a significant …

The innovation research of contract farming financing mode under the block chain technology

D Zhang - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2020 - Elsevier
As one of the most promising technologies in the new round of fintech revolution, block
chain technology has a broad application prospect. It is of great significance to apply the …

Design and validation of a multi-objective waypoint planning algorithm for UAV spraying in orchards based on improved ant colony algorithm

H Tian, Z Mo, C Ma, J Xiao, R Jia, Y Lan… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Current aerial plant protection with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) usually
applies full coverage route planning, which is challenging for plant protection operations in …

Numerical simulation of the spatial and temporal distributions of the downwash airflow and spray field of a co-axial eight-rotor plant protection UAV in hover

Y Tang, Y Fu, Q Guo, H Huang, Z Tan, S Luo - Computers and Electronics in …, 2023 - Elsevier
The downwash airflow of a multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in hover can improve
the penetration rate of droplets in the canopy of fruit trees, but the uncertain distribution of …

Research on dynamic scheduling model of plant protection UAV based on levy simulated annealing algorithm

C Chen, Y Li, G Cao, J Zhang - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
The plant protection unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) scheduling model is of great
significance to improve the operation income of UAV plant protection teams and ensure the …

A safe, high fertilizer-efficiency and economical approach based on a low-volume spraying UAV loaded with chelated-zinc fertilizer to produce zinc-biofortified rice …

M Xu, M Liu, F Liu, N Zheng, S Tang, J Zhou… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2021 - Elsevier
Agricultural spraying unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be used to avoid human
exposure to agrochemical mists and to obtain many extra benefits in crop protection, and …