A proposed technology to ensure high-precision aerial seeding of certified seeds

Abstract

The research to which this article is devoted relates to forestry and agriculture, in particular, to methods that provide accurate seeding in areas that are inaccessible or ineffective for ground-based mechanization. The existing approaches today have a number of significant drawbacks that do not allow to implement the stated tasks with sufficient accuracy. The main ones are: The presence of a mechanical system for creating air pressure, which significantly complicates the sowing process, without ensuring, at the same time, its sufficient accuracy; the impossibility of ensuring also accurate seeding due to the lack of control of the rotational speed of the auger feeder, depending on the speed of the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) itself. The result of this study was a developed technology that has no analogues in the world, which greatly simplifies the process of sowing from the air, does not require energy costs and additional equipment, and also increases the accuracy of seeding due to its uniformity at various values of the UAV speed.