Agricultural harvesting using integrated robot system

In today's competitive world, robot designs are developed to simplify and improve quality wherever necessary. The rise in technology and modernization has led people from the unskilled sector to shift to the skilled sector. The agricultural sector's solution for harvesting fruits and vegetables is manual labor and a few other agro bots that are expensive and have various limitations when it comes to harvesting. Although robots present may achieve harvesting, the affordability of such designs may not be possible by small and medium-scale producers. The integrated robot system is designed to solve this problem, and when compared with the existing manual methods, this seems to be the most cost-effective, efficient, and viable solution. The robot uses deep learning for image detection, and the object is acquired using robotic manipulators. The robot uses a Cartesian and articulated configuration to perform the picking action. In the end, the robot is operated where carrots and cantaloupes were harvested. The data of the harvested crops are used to arrive at the conclusion of the robot's accuracy.

Teleology of A. P. Chekhov’s Story “My Life” (Theme and Thematical Motifs)

Purpose. The study is devoted to main thematical motifs of Chekhov’s story “My Life”. The correspondence between them reveals thematical integrity of the story. Teleology, the philosofical and conceptual aim of literary creative work, gets its manifestation by means of thematic unity. Results. The hero of the story, Misail Poloznev, breaks off relations with his narrow-minded father, an untalented civil architect. Gentry son, Misail would not choose some respectable job and prefers to work as a house-painter. He declares the importance of manual labor, so he feels like a social outcast in the town. The first leading motif of the story is a labor necessity. Another house-painter, Redka, shares its opinion. His credo is no lie, no deceive, technical skills. True and untrue way of living is the next important motif in the plot and thematical structure of the story. It realizes in two subjects: Masha Dolzhikova’s slogan “Everything is being past through” and Doctor Blagovo’s theory of progress indifferent to ethic goals of self-perfection. Misail Polosnev, on contrary, is sure that “nothing gets past through without a trace”, that a man is responsible on his deeds. The motif of life as a play is a derivate of the responsibility motif. Masha plays in life like an actress. She and Dr. Dolzhikov are completely egoistic, so Misail’s father is. Misail, his sister and Redka live for others’ good. Finally, this way is the only right way to live. Conclusion. The general theme of Chekov’s story “Me Life” is free will of the person tied with his or hers sense of responsibility. Motifs of free labor, true living and common duty units the thematical wholeness of the story. Its teleology is a need of ethic existence for everyone.

Research on UHV Isolating Switch Technology with Multi-source Action Signal

With the improvement of the voltage level of power transmission and transformation lines, the development of smart grids has highlighted a major demand, and relevant enterprises and scientific researchers in the UHV field at home and abroad have explored the research of water intelligent isolation switch equipment. This article explains the current problems of traditional substation isolation switches, and analyzes the advantages and disadvantages of UHV isolation switch technology and its application status through three aspects: isolation switch, isolation switch contact and isolation switch sensor. Studies have shown that the development and application of isolating switches with multi-source action signals, and further improving the proportion and accuracy of smart devices to replace manual labor are the development trends of UHV isolating switches.

Should you trust industrial robots

The owners of advanced enterprises try to exclude the human factor from the process as much as possible, confident that artificial intelligence is many times more effective. But among the leaders there are those who deliberately do not trust robots for key stages of production, using them exclusively for rough work. How and why manual labor is used in the age of self-organizing cyber-physical systems is described in the article.

Intelligent programming support system: machine learning feat. Fast development of secure programs.

The article is devoted to the field of software development. The considered scientific contradiction lies in the fact that, on the one hand, the use of manual labor of a programmer is necessary in this area, and on the other hand, the presence of a human factor negatively affects the safety of the resulting code. To resolve the contradiction, it is proposed to use machine learning, which is traditionally used to solve the problem of classification, regression, search for anomalies, clustering, generalization and search for associations. It is shown that the majority of publications on this solution are of a private nature and do not cover the entire spectrum of possibilities. Various ways of automating the programming process using solutions for the specified machine learning problems are considered and substantiated. The demand for a system that combines such methods is indicated; Also, for the first time, its author’s definition is introduced: «Intelligent Programming Support System – a computer automated system based on artificial intelligence technologies, the purpose of which is to help developers of program code in the interests of reducing and simplifying manual labor, as well as increasing the safety of the final product». A comparative analysis of automation methods based on machine learning is given according to 8 criteria that this intelligent system must meet. The ways of further continuation of the research are indicated.

ESTIMATING EFFICIENCY OF POND ELECTRIC SEINE NETS OPERATION

The article considers the problem of low productivity of many fish farms, especially non-drainage ponds against the background of a growing increase in the volume of fish farming, which is typical for pond fish farming in Russia. It has been found that one of the main factors of low productivity (1–5 c/ha) is the imperfection of existing tools and methods of fishing. With significant costs of manual labor and time, the catch of farmed fish is no more than 50%. The remaining fish die mostly during winter fish kills. To reduce the proportion of manual labor and improve the efficiency of fishing in non-drainage ponds, many countries are looking for the methods to modernize existing or develop new fishing gear. The most promising in this respect are electric breeders for fishing in the non-drainage ponds, small lakes and water reservoirs. The advantages of this method are the coverage of a large fishing zone, the possibility of catching fish leaving ordi-nary seines, and work in silted and tied water bodies. Studying the regularities of the electric field impact on fish is necessary to explain and predict its behavior in electric fields, to develop technical means that provide the necessary control activity, to develop measures to protect ichthyofauna from the harmful effects of electric fields, etc.

The use of mulching material in the cultivation of apple and pear in a small plastic greenhouses

This article presents the results of studies that were conducted in a small-sized film greenhouse for growing аpple and pear seedlings according to different planting schemes with mulching between rows with black span bond and matting. It was found that mulching between rows creates more favorable conditions for growing plants. The temperature regime of the soil improves, especially at the depth of the root layer. The row spacing soil is less compacted, since multiple loosening and weeding are not required. The mulching materials used freely pass water and mineral elements dissolved in it. Black woven matting is recognized as the best material for mulching between rows of apple and pear trees in a small film greenhouse. The applied schemes of planting winter grafts of apple and pear trees and mulching of row spacing made it possible to completely abandon the use of intensive manual labor on weeding and loosening the soil. Using three-line planting instead of one-line planting allows to significantly increase the yield of planting material per unit area.

Platformizing family production: The contradictions of rural digital labor in China

How is the rise of platform capitalism reinventing the traditional regime of familial production, while at the same time being energized by it? How do the historically informed, lived experiences of rural e-commerce entrepreneurs or workers in China help reconceptualize digital labor and platform studies? Deploying the analytic of platformized family production, this article addresses these questions through a deep description of the experiences of variously positioned platform-based and mediated laborers in an e-commerce village in East China. I argue that the ongoing process of platformizing family production is profoundly contradictory. As an alternative to a model of development based on unevenness and the rural-urban divide, village e-commerce has created opportunities for peasants and marginalized urban youth to achieve social mobility. However, it also shapes a new regime of value that privileges the individualized e-commerce entrepreneur as an ideal subject, and fetishizes and instrumentalizes innovation and creativity in conformity with the global intellectual property regime. These tendencies not only contradict the reality of collective labor organization both on e-commerce platforms and in villages, but also conflict with the indispensable role of manual labor in the production process—reinforcing rather than overcoming existing inequalities and stratification in rural China. JEL Codes: J16, J61, L86, Q55, R12

Proposing WPOD-NET combining SVM system for detecting car number plate

<span lang="EN-US">Nowadays, there are many smart parking lots using plate detection system to control in/out vehicles. However, the disadvantages of systems are a fixed environment and necessity of manual labor and requirement of checkpoints in entrances. To solve the problems, a novel algorithm for wide-angle detecting car number plate using warped planar object detection (WPOD-NET) and a modified support vector machine (SVM) system is proposed. Comparing to other models, the proposal improves not only the range of detection angle but also the accuracy of detecting in shady conditions. The results show that the accuracy of proposal model is up to 95.1% with 1000 testing images in various scenarios.</span>