Abstract
Coconut production plays a key role in economic and
cultural upliftment of many of India’s southern states. In fact, the state of
Kerala is widely known as ‘land of coconut trees’. Harvesting coconut is
becoming a difficult task since many of the trained workers are no longer
working and the current generation is showing little interest in this whole
concept. Thus, the invention of new machines is extremely necessary in order to
save coconut farming. The goal of this project is to create a coconut harvesting
drone which will revolutionize the coconut production in many of India’s
southern states particularly Kerala. The aim of this drone is to cut ripe
coconuts using its mounted laser cutter.
This drone will be a manually controlled quad-copter, consisting of a
camera and sensors to determine whether the coconut is ripe or not. Some of
technical challenges that we might face during the production of drone would be
determining adequate amount of power for moving parts of the drone, finding
appropriate sensors that can tell whether the coconut is ripe or not, and a
capable robotic arm that can cut the coconuts.
1. Introduction
The invention of drones
revolutionized the world. From security to entertainment, drones are useful in
almost all areas of our day to day life. Smart and intelligent use of drones
will help humans to easily accomplish
many tasks which were previously very complicated or even impossible.
