Path Optimization for Minimizing Energy Consumption in Harvesting
摘要
Obtaining an optimized path for the direction of harvesting is crucial in agriculture. A variety of agricultural tools, equipment, and resources are used in harvesting, leading to significant consumption of time and energy. In order to make the harvesting efficient, it is necessary to optimize the path of harvesting to achieve maximum profit and minimum energy consumption. Usually, the farm can have damaged crops which occur due to weather extremities, pest attacks, misuse of chemicals, and poor irrigation techniques. Therefore, it is important to avoid damaged crops while harvesting. However, avoiding the damaged crops may not be efficient until the shortest path can be achieved to perform the harvesting. The shortest path to follow for harvesting can be obtained by applying path optimization algorithms. Therefore, this study proposes the application of the A* algorithm to find the optimized path for the direction of harvesting. As a result, productive and efficient harvesting can be achieved by avoiding unnecessary wastage of time and energy.