التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Involving Multidisciplinary Undergraduate Students in the Design and Development of an Innovative Device for the Detection of Plant Nematodes. |
| المؤلفون: |
Junkun Ma, Yildiz, Faruk, Pecen, Reg Recayi, Casper, Marc, Weirich, Austin Wayne |
| المصدر: |
Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition; 2023, p1-12, 12p |
| مستخلص: |
This work-in-progress paper presents the contributions of a group of multi-disciplinary undergraduate students in the different phases of designing and developing an innovative device for the non-destructive rapid detection of plant nematodes (PN). Working as a team, undergraduate students majoring in mechanical engineering technology (MET), electronics and computer engineering technology (ECET), and computer science (CS) have been working on the mechanical design and prototype development, electronics and control, and software design and development components of the project supported by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) since 2020. PNs are parasites that attack plants through their roots and can negatively affect many crops of agricultural importance. Once established, PNs can be widely dispersed by several factors, including machinery, handheld planting equipment, movement via shoes and clothing, movement of soil, and many other mechanisms as their eggs live and hatch in the soil. Since juvenile nematodes penetrate the host plant roots to develop into adult females with eggs presenting as a cyst attached to the plant roots, it is possible to detect the morphological differences between healthy and infected plants by examing their roots. A minirhizotron with a camera module mounted on a precise linear motion system driven by a stepper motor and controlled by a microcontroller is developed to image plant roots. By applying custom-designed image processing algorithms, suspected areas representing cysts of PNs can be identified. This paper shows the design, prototype development, and experimental tests of the first model that integrates the minirhizotron probe, the microcontroller, and a touchscreen with a graphic user interface (GUI), the second design that separates the minirhizotron probe and a hand-held controller with a GUI and cables for communications between the two parts, and the ongoing wireless network capable minirhizotron probe that can be accessed via a web-browser based GUI. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| قاعدة البيانات: |
Complementary Index |
