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Samara Polytech Scientists Created “Smart” Farming

March 6th, 2020 AI system is designed to help farmers with decision making

Samara Polytech Scientists in consortium with the AI-Company have created the first AI-based smart cyber-physical system for precise farming with digital twins of plants.

A prototype of AI-based smart cyber-physical system for precise farming has a digital knowledgebase on crop cultivation which contains the formal specifications of sorts of crops, phases of plants growth, technologies, machines, etc. Multi-agent technology is applied for designing digital twin of plant and providing the decision making support, including adaptive resource allocation, scheduling, optimization and controlling. The system helps farmers to select sorts and technology, develop crop rotation plan, monitor fields and adapt resource plans for precise machines in case of unpredictable events.

The recent results have been published in Cybernetics and Physics (https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/11MDTtVPMF0rNtdcm—LzmUCtoa_uMf2I).

"AI helps to monitor the plants growth via satellites and drones detecting possible problems and adaptively allocates and schedules resources available including equipment and workers, fertilizers and pesticides, visualizing plans and key indicators in real time" explains project leader, doctor of Technical Science, Head of Electronic Systems Department, Petr Skobelev. "Our plan for this year is to provide accuracy of 2.5 cm for precise machines to keep plants secure in wheat production". This projects is supported by Smart Solutions, one of most innovative Russian high-tech AI company, spin-off of University.

Originally the system was designed for wheat growing, but presently the scientists are planning to modify the system and expand the range of agricultural species it can deal with. National Pingtung University of Science and Technology (NPUST), one of the largest Universities in South-East Asia, have expressed their interest in the product. Meanwhile the possibility of using "Smart Farming"in Thailand, Philippines and India is being discussed.

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Samara Polytech is a Flagship university, a powerful research and educational center and a leader in the preparation of elite engineering personnel. Scientists guide research and development in almost all strategic sectors: Petrochemistry, Oil and Gas Production and Processing, Energy, Information Technologies, Artificial Intelligence, Pharmaceutical and Food Technologies, Construction and Architecture. In addition, the university actively participates in the State Armament Program, in solving strategic problems of the region and implementing significant projects of federal significance. University graduates are famous Russian scientists, government officials, leaders of leading companies.

Provided by Samara State Technical University

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