Agricultural drone station7/1/2023 Guardian had its second prototype running through field trials to test reliability, spray patterns, and precision on a number of different crops in different locations by 2019. Led by a group of former Apple, BAE, Tesla, and Uber executives, the company found its first opportunity in guarding farm fields with less waste and harmful emissions, hence the name Guardian Agriculture. Guardian’s electric autonomous drones will be used to spray crops, paving the way for sustainable farming in the US.įounded in 2017, Guardian Agriculture believed advances in electric vehicles, AI, and flight dynamics could serve a more significant purpose. By combining this technology with an RGB or thermal camera, it is capable of various missions ranging from emergency, rescue, reconnaissance, and inspection.After receiving approval from the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Monday, Guardian Agriculture has become the first commercially authorized eVTOL to operate across the US. Drone4Agro has successfully equipped a drone with 100,000 high lumen light source which has a flight time of 30 minutes. To ensure clear and useful visual information can be obtained by the drone during mission, a drone equipped with high lumen light source could come in handy especially for night missions or when the environment has limited light. Practical tests had shown a landing accuracy of around +/-15cm.ĭrone4Agro is also conducting research in other drone technologies and applications that could assist search and rescue missions and perimeter surveillance. Prototype of docking station for recharging the drone. This idea initiated the development of the docking station technology that includes the software development for precise autonomous landing, auto-correction in windy conditions and the implementation of a scaled docking station for electric charging and liquid refilling. Winfried Rijseenbeek, the CEO and founder of Drone4Agro, mentioned that agricultural drones should be able to accomplish tasks on the fields, as well as capable to extend their operating time by recharging and refilling without the need of a human operator. One challenge in agricultural drones at the moment is its payload limitation. ![]() ![]() Currently, the company offers drones that can carry different equipment up to 80 kg with around 20 minutes of flight time, extendable to 1.5 hours if a range extender is used.Īgridrone Valck – custom made mega drone of 80 kg payload being tested By selecting different drone designs, the flight duration, flying speed and payload can be optimized for different applications in order to reduce costs. ![]() Understanding that small open field horticulturalist and greenhouse owner have different needs than larger crop producers, the goal of Drone4Agro is to build tailor-made agricultural drones for spraying and fertilizing crops.Ĭustomers can choose between a normal-sized quadcopter and up to nine-meters width mega drone equipped with different types of spraying systems such as point sprayers and boom sprayer. The expertise of Drone4Agro includes spraying drones for precision agriculture and docking stations for recharging and refilling of the drones. Drone4Agro ( ), one of the partners in the SPECTORS project, focuses on developing drone technologies for the agricultural sectors.
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