Drone tree pruning in Ilam gardens

Autonomous tree pruning trial in the Ilam Gardens undertaken by UC DroneLab at the University of Canterbury.
www.canterbury.ac.nz/engineering/ucdronelab

[@user-qj9lt2fy9m]

Gotta get me one of those

[@bobs6895]

The hard part is climbing up there to glue the little red disc onto the branch.

[@user-qj9lt2fy9m]

What disk

[@bobs6895]

@@user-qj9lt2fy9m At :25 it looks like a red disc has been glued to the branch, presumably to guide the drone to the place to make the cut.

[@user-qj9lt2fy9m]

Oh I thought that was a computer generated target

[@nativemiami77]

And the red vertical line at :10 was also glue to the tree. Then it disappeared.

[@jakekisiel7399]

Congratulations! you cut one branch and now your battery is dead. Good job 👍

[@MichaelChenAdventures]

very cool

[@kenborghini]

Where can I buy this? 😮

[@selvakumar-gk1qu]

how it is worked?

[@UCEngineeringNZ]

Hi Selva. It works using computer vision. Take a look here www.canterbury.ac.nz/engineering/ucdronelab/computer-science-and-software-engineering/

[@lindaincolorado7854]

I was just wishing I had a drone with a chainsaw to prune a limb that I can't reach. These would be dangerous, so I doubt I'll have access to one any time soon, though.

[@TqSNv9R0iG5Ckxew]

Google "rope saw" It's basically a $30 flexible blade attached to a rope on each side that you tug back and forth. I would use a drone to lift the rope over the branch you want to cut.