Emulation of Multi-Rotor Functionalities in Fixed Wing Airplane for Farm Based Land Surveillance with Controlled Fluid Dispersion System

Abstract

The World is emerging with Technologies in every discipline, and India plays a vital role in the export of agricultural products. Since it has a huge amount of manifestation, it requires a lot of manpower. The Lack of skilled labour can also cause depletion of crops production rate. So the use of Technologies in agriculture reduces manpower drastically and increases efficiency. The production rate of crops in agriculture is based on various parameters like temperature, humidity, rain, etc., which are natural factors and are not controlled by farmers. The field of agriculture also depends on some factors like pests, disease, fertilizers, etc., which can be controlled by giving proper treatment to crops. Even though the use of pesticides can protect the crop, it may also have harmful effects on human health. So usage of technologies like quadcopter is an efficient process. But as it involves a huge amount of Initial and Operational cost, the quadcopters are replaced with Fixed Wing Drones. This paper depicts about the design and development of Fixed Wing Airplane known as AGRIWING, which combines all the desirable features of a conventional agricultural fixed wing such as mapping of farm, gathering heat signatures, etc., with the added capabilities of the autonomous fluid dispensing system, as in the Drone Spraying System with the advantages of Fixed Wing Airplane including reduced cost, improved flight time, robustness and more.