Solution to Bird Pest on Cultivated Grain Farm: A Vision Controlled Quadcopter System Approach

Abstract

Birds invasion on rice cultivated field have been very disastrous specially in Africa. Most farmer have few options to manage these birds with traditional farmers and their children running up the field shouting, throwing stones and sometimes beating drums to scare birds away. This method and many other methods employed to address this issue are energy consuming and expensive and sometimes not effective at all. This study present the use of vision controlled quadcopter system to detect and chase these birds away from cultivated field. The method involves using robot vision to control the position of quadcopter in an attempt to follow the object while it produces scaring sounds such as bird distress call and predators call.