Precision aquaculture drone algorithm for delivery in sea cages

摘要

Peninsular India, with its vast and unexplored marine water spread, promises a thriving future for cage farming industry. Nevertheless, the remoteness of cage sites and the characteristic oceanographic upheavals of tropical Indian Ocean, demands several engineering interventions that can ease the level of effort and cost required for farming in the open sea. Labor cost for the daily maintenance of farm especially that for the feeding activity, forms a major share of the working cost of the entire culture activity. Automation of the feeding activity using a drone technology can assure regular feeding. This also ensures that feed is distributed uniformly in the cages so that all animals are equally fed and also minimal loss of feed. The system can also be customized to deliver other farm inputs like medicines, vaccines and fertilizers. The introduction of robotics in the aquaculture can create a revolution by optimizing the precision and effort and thereby increasing the production and profit.