Project Description

This project focuses on developing advanced drone technologies for precision agriculture. The goal is to create an energy-efficient autonomous UAV system that can survey fields, detect crop health issues, and protect wildlife – especially roe deer fawns hidden in grasslands during haymaking.

By combining autonomous flight, AI-based detection, and modular hardware/software, the project aims to reduce wildlife mortality, improve agricultural sustainability, and enable farmers to make data-driven decisions directly in the field.

Key objectives

• Enable fully autonomous aerial monitoring without human pilots.

• Detect and localize roe deer and other wildlife in real time to reduce mortality during harvest.

• Develop algorithms for energy-efficient trajectory planning and collision avoidance.

• Provide modular UAV hardware capable of carrying diverse sensors (RGB, thermal, multispectral, LiDAR)

Impact

The project contributes to sustainable farming practices, enhancing biodiversity protection and crop yield. In the Czech Republic, it directly addresses the problem of roe deer mortality (up to 60,000 animals per year). In Taiwan, it supports monitoring of diverse crops and protection against diseases.

Overall, the outcomes will provide scalable solutions for agriculture worldwide. From small local farms to large-scale industrial agriculture.