Study on Air-Ground Amphibious Agricultural Information Collection Robot

The popularization of internet brought new opportunity to the development of agriculture informatization and put forward new requirements to the collection technology of agriculture information and its equipment. Considering the problems remained in current agriculture information collection technology and pattern, in order to obtain a more accurate and comprehensive information of the farmland environment and crops growth condition and advance the development of internet agriculture, this research developed an robot with dual functions both in air and on earth to collect agriculture information. Firstly, adapting to the complex terrain of the farmland, ground running gear and flight facility of the robot were designed. Secondly, according to the requirements of agriculture information collection, farmland information collection system and flight attitude monitoring system were designed. Finally, based on above research, robot prototype was made and being tested. The test result shows that the robot has a good and satisfying capacity for information collection both in intelligent inside flight and at farmland operation. It can accurately measure the temperature and humidity in the intelligent greenhouse and its picture processing result well explained the crops' growth condition.