General Information

• Project Title:

  Sustainable Farming: Energy-efficient UAV Technologies for Precision Agriculture
• Project Title in the Original Language:

  Udržitelné zemědělství: Energeticky výkonné bezpilotní technologie pro precizní zemědělství
• Project No.:

  TQ16000038
• Provider:

  TA0 – Technology Agency of the Czech Republic (TA CR)
• Programme:

  TQ - Program for Supporting Applied Research and Innovations SIGMA (2022–2035)
• Start of the Project:

  01. January 2025
• End of the Project:

  31. December 2027

The Goals of the Solution

• The Goals of the Solution:

  The project aims to develop an assistive autonomous aerial system for fast and energy-efficient surveying and monitoring of crop fields and grasslands, focusing first on automated detection and localization of wildlife for their rescue before haymaking. The system will be capable of autonomous navigation over a defined area, accurate real-time detection and localization of objects of interest (e.g., young roe deer) using onboard sensors and computers only, and in-flight decision-making based on detected objects and perceived state of the environment. Reliable, safe, and efficient deployment independent of environmental characteristics will be achieved by developing energy-efficient trajectory planning, obstacle detection, and collision avoidance modules.
• Keywords:

  Smart Agriculture; Unmanned Aerial Vehicles; Machine vision; Energy-efficient UAV; Wild life preservation; Wild animal detection; Autonomous UAV;

Beneficiary

• Beneficiary:

  Fly4Future s.r.o.
• Researcher:

  Ing. Mgr. Věra Sasková
• Other Researchers:

  Ing. Jan Bednář
  Alexandre Bonnefond, Ph.D.
  Vojtěch Leischner
  Ing. Karolína Lokočová Bořucká
  Ing. Pavel Petráček
  Ing. Martin Šrámek

Other Project Participants

• Other Project Participant:

  University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice / Faculty of Agriculture and Technology
• Researcher:

  doc. RNDr. Petr Bartoš, Ph.D.
• Other Researchers:

  Ing. Mgr. Roman Bumbálek, Ph.D.
  Ing. Radim Kuneš, Ph.D.
  Ing. Jakub Polenský, Ph.D.
  Ing. Mgr. Tomáš Zoubek