Microcontroller based roller contact type herbicide applicator for weed control under row crops

Computers and Electronics in Agriculture

Volumn 104, Issue , 2014, Pages 40-45

  Tewari, V K ^a   Ashok Kumar, A ^b   Nare, Brajesh ^a   Prakash, Satya ^a   Tyagi, Ankur ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b College of Agricultural Engineering ^*  (India)

Author keywords

Herbicide; Image analysis; Microcontroller; Roller contact type; Solenoid valves; Weeds

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; APPLICATORS; CROPS; HERBICIDES; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; LAPTOP COMPUTERS; MATLAB; MICROCONTROLLERS; ROLLERS (MACHINE COMPONENTS); SOLENOID VALVES; WEED CONTROL;

MATLAB- SOFTWARE; MICROCONTROLLER-BASED; ROLLER CONTACTS; SERIAL PORT COMMUNICATION; SERIAL PORT INTERFACES; VARIABLE RATE APPLICATION; WEEDING EFFICIENCIES; WEEDS;

CONTROLLERS;

AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY; ALGORITHM; CONTROL SYSTEM; HERBICIDE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE; WEED CONTROL;

EID: 84898995707     PISSN: 01681699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compag.2014.03.005     Document Type: Article

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