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Caner Koc
Turkey
Department of Agricultural Machinery and Technologies Engineering, Faculty of Agriculture, Ankara University
University
Autonomous agricultural robot, subsoil fertilization, liquid farm manure, plant nutrition, variable rate application
TP 01: Use AI-systems (machine learning, deep learning and neural network approaches) to accelerate the digitisation in the agri-food sector
Topic 2: Development of an Autonomous, Artificial Intelligence Based Agricultural Robot capable of Fertilizing Biogas-Based Liquid Digestate Under Soil Surface
There are problems becoming increasingly widespread in eliminating the liquid organic wastes in either biogas facilities or livestock farms. Biogas facilities either store these wastes in pools or mainly discharge them into the environment and/or sewage, although it is prohibited by environmental law. Therefore, these organic wastes, which contain nutrients that are extremely rich for soil, turn into an environmental problem because they cannot be utilized. There are plenty of organic and mineral substances, especially nitrogen, organic nitrogen, nitrate, urea, phosphorus, sulfur, sodium, chloride in the content of the decanter effluent in biogas plants. In developed countries, biogas wastes are delivered to the farmers through the collection centers, for a fee, and given to their fields by underground injection. The project aims to develop an artificial intelligence based, electric, autonomous, subsoil liquid fertilizer robot prototype that has map-based variable rate application capability that provides advantages of liquid farm and biogas fertilizers and will transform into an economic value due to its high organic matter and nutrient content by the systematic injection of biogas plant waste water and liquid farm fertilizers, which are an important environmental pollution factor.
There are problems becoming increasingly widespread in eliminating the liquid organic wastes in either biogas facilities or livestock farms. Biogas facilities either store these wastes in pools or mainly discharge them into the environment and/or sewage, although it is prohibited by environmental law. Therefore, these organic wastes, which contain nutrients that are extremely rich for soil, turn into an environmental problem because they cannot be utilized. There are plenty of organic and mineral substances, especially nitrogen, organic nitrogen, nitrate, urea, phosphorus, sulfur, sodium, chloride in the content of the decanter effluent in biogas plants. In developed countries, biogas wastes are delivered to the farmers through the collection centers, for a fee, and given to their fields by underground injection. The project aims to develop an artificial intelligence based, electric, autonomous, subsoil liquid fertilizer robot prototype that has map-based variable rate application capability that provides advantages of liquid farm and biogas fertilizers and will transform into an economic value due to its high organic matter and nutrient content by the systematic injection of biogas plant waste water and liquid farm fertilizers, which are an important environmental pollution factor.
Ankara University Faculty of Agriculture, which joined to Turkish higher education with a new discipline and approach in 1948, has made many contributions to the development of nation’s agriculture; played important roles in education of Agriculture Engineers and many highly qualified scientists. Beginning from its first establishment, more than 20.000 engineers graduated from the faculty, and thousands of research papers, theses and articles were published.
Today, with more than 500 decares of the campus land, research and application farms, research stations, experienced academic and administrative staff, Ankara University Faculty of Agriculture is the leading education and research institution of Turkey.
Today, with more than 500 decares of the campus land, research and application farms, research stations, experienced academic and administrative staff, Ankara University Faculty of Agriculture is the leading education and research institution of Turkey.