Description:Field of Invention
The current invention associated to the agricultural field that relies on robotics and automation i.e. hardware dependent self-independent farm robot which is designed to do different farming task with improved efficiency and precision. This invention combines multiple electronics and mechanical components which include robotic arms, RF remote, sensors, pinion mechanisms etc. Such combination of technology helps to do n-number of tasks like weeding, irrigation, spraying and many more tasks.
Background of the Invention
Agriculture is one of the backbones for your country and it is one of the important sectors where mass population depends on. It’s crucial role in economic sustainability and food production for global meet. Modern farming come across different types of challenges which includes operational cost inflation, environmental conditions, improper resource utilization, labor cost, time utilization etc. Global increase in demand of food and for proper farming practices, there is a great need for precision and automation latest technology in field of agriculture.
This invention comes under the field of agricultural robotic automation, machinery, smart farming, precise farming etc. that provide effective solution in term of labor efficient, cost, manpower to scale the farming sectors. The production increase is one of the key aspects of this technology that will enhance the overall productivity. It also utilizes semi-autonomous independent operations stages that would help to reduce the manual human effort and labor cost.
To achieve the higher production at various challenges by the farming professional required a correct option for guaranteed results. Utilizing new technologies following greenhouse is one of the good option that will help to minimize the effect of insects and improve indoor farming. Industry 4.0 brings a new revolution in technology development in terms of IoT and robots. The deployment of sensors in gathering data is quite easy with real-time data and this will help the farmers in decision making correctly. A feasible solution that support small farming using network in form of sensor network. Unsupervised algorithm is one of the solution to cluster the standard, optimal, and efficient way to support greenhouse farming to identify inappropriate growth in crops [P. D. Rosero-Montalvo, C. A. Gordillo-Gordillo and W. Hernandez, "Smart Farming Robot for Detecting Environmental Conditions in a Greenhouse," in IEEE Access, vol. 11, pp. 57843-57853, 2023, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3283986].
About 60% of the Indian population completely depends on the agriculture directly or indirectly. At present, due to shortage in labor domain due to advancement in agriculture tools and machines. Smart multipurpose robot has been widely used to minimize the labor utilization to increase the agriculture work and to achieve accuracy. The proposed system mentioned here embedded with separate agricultural robotic vehicle which can be controlled using IoT. It is used for various applications like detection of blockage, live streaming, sowing etc., which can be moved in all the directions. Various soil parameters measuring can also be possible which includes luminosity, humidity and sensor position fixing for tracking moisture and temperature using Blynk App. The user can able to control the camera in any direction wirelessly using IoT to monitor for live session. [N. T. V and H. M Kalpana, "Smart Multipurpose Agricultural Robot," 2021 IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Computing and Communication Technologies (CONECCT), Bangalore, India, 2021, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/CONECCT52877.2021.9622632].
The excessive demand of precise agricultural tracking grows with the increasing population. Robotic system value a valuable role in smart farming with a potential to enhance crop capability. The autonomous robot system tailored for agriculture play a dominant role in various multitask operations. Primary focus on the small plant assessment like disease detection, environment fluctuation etc., which is very much time consuming and costly methods. The suggested robotic framework i.e., robot operating system that utilizes the A astrik algorithms and window approach to perform all these tasks. The deep learning approaches were also employed for independent three level ripeness classifications and detection of disease arises in tomato plant. The robot achieved higher accuracy in identifying the ripeness level in real-time scenario [Z. Al-Mashhadani and J. -H. Park, "Autonomous Agricultural Monitoring Robot for Efficient Smart Farming," 2023 23rd International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems (ICCAS), Yeosu, Korea, Republic of, 2023, pp. 640-645, doi: 10.23919/ICCAS59377.2023.10316866].
Description of Prior Art
The latest agriculture system, completely responsible for providing feeding to the global population. This modern system requires substantial proper management of artificial and natural resources. Various resources include pesticides, water, soil, sunlight etc. that will help in the development of plant and contribute in achieving more crops yields. Although, agricultural growth is highly affected by various variables like plant disease, weather scenario, insects, making proper allocation and management of existing resources are one of the major challenges.
The requirement of specific tracking of plant growth, health, and crop production applicable to different agricultural situations which includes orchards, open fields, and greenhouses. The efficient management of such resources is quite critical for maintain efficient agricultural functioning. Traditional approaches of crop tracking and resource arraignment completely depends on human effort, which consumes a lot of time, highly inconsistent and labor intensive. To highlight such challenges and issues, agriculture system must have some technical support of robot that consists of advances sensor and automatic functioning capabilities to be introduced to improve the agriculture growth for long term.
CN 102124866 reveals technologies based on agriculture robots which are designed for tracking the growth of crop using sensor i.e. ultrasonic. Also, US 6672583B1 reveals that such robots facilitate much better data gathering and proved better assistant to the plant conditions. But such design has some limitations in term of precision of data gathering and automation.
EP3 247 189B1 reveals that various existing robotic machine lacks comprehensive strength to do jobs in season management jobs which includes culling, harvesting, measuring, weeding etc., and complete management of crop system. Furthermore, such solution does have limitations in integrating advanced machine with independent and functionalities of robots. These current systems lag in the ability to generate the detailed about plant mapping, which would activate much improved resource allocation and measured agriculture interventions.
WO 2006/063314A3 reveals the prior work by integrating advanced machine observation methods using cameras that are used to locate and identify fruit on plant, identify the optimal location on vines and gather important agricultural data. Such cameras, integrated with robotic hands or other incorporate, provide better capability to capture inside plant views to improve precision level in processing agricultural jobs.
EP 3 827 654 A1 reveals agriculture robot for multipurpose applications to perform multiple jobs for the management of crop as per the season and agriculture filed conditions. It independently navigates between nearby rows of the planted crops and relies on part and the data collected. Its aerial navigation sensor integrates to mast increasing towards upward which is away from a surface of filed which is one the serious issues of this technology.
Summary of the invention
In the light of the above mention drawback in the prior art, the invention of smart agriculture robot for farming describes an independent farm robot that is designed to improve the overall efficiency of farming practice. The designed robot is embedded with various sophisticated sensors, decision-handling features with precision farming weapons to handle different agricultural jobs. It includes various tasks like harvesting, weeding, watering, pest control, irrigation etc. It also deals with various latest technologies like computer vision and some feature of machine learning to detect the crop status, maintain resource utilization and minimize labor dependency. This system can further be integrated with GPS and IoT technologies that data gathering and real-time monitoring.
This system aims is to provide a informed and calculated decision to the farmer to increase the productivity, minimize the environmental risk, reduce cost and making the farming practice more efficient and sustainable
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The invention will be described in detail with reference to the exemplary embodiments shown in the figures wherein:
Figure 1. Pictorial representation of smart agriculture farm robot (Hardwar arrangements)
Detailed description of the invention
Agriculture sector is one the backbone through huge population is directly or indirectly related and with the advancement in renewable energy, automation and AI. Traditional farming approach faces a lot of issues which huge manpower effort. This approach somehow not feasible and now the need of an hour to replace with autonomous robots to improve sustainability, precision and efficiency of agriculture practice. Farm robot for agriculture are now playing a crucial role integrating solar power, remote control, IoT and intelligent control to improve farming culture.
Designed robot for agriculture practice is an advance, remotely operated, autonomous system that assist different agriculture jobs that includes weeding, harvesting, sowing, watering etc. the system designed with a solar panel, controlling arm, motor with 12V capacity, battery with 12 V capacity, motor (water pumping), RF remote and rack & pinion features. It also helps to ensure eco-friendly and effecting farming processes. Robot used may reduce human effort, optimizes available resources, and improves productivity in latest farming. At the top solar panel play an important role to provide power to the robot, ensuring suitable energy for running. It also gathers sunlight’s and converts into its electrical form, which is further stored in the 12V battery. This power is utilize to access the different part of the robot. This continuous operation is enables and accessed remotely without any external energy resources. The utilization of solar panel plays a significant role due to its capability to harness renewable power for better operations.
Farm robot utilizes solar panel solar energy minimizes the operational costs about 35-40%, making is economically viable for large and small-scale farmers. The combination of 12V batteries also maintains the uninterrupted power supply, even in low light conditions, making robots reliable and energy efficient. Rechargeable battery (12V) gathers energy generated from the solar panels and transfer to the control system, motor (12V) and water pumping motor for its operations. It also maintains its energy in cloud environment and allowing the robot to perform with precise motor control. Autonomous navigation robot helps in farming that will help to improve the irrigation, planting, field coverage efficiency. System with rack and pinion converts rotational movement into linear motion, allowing for proper and smooth mobility across rough fields, which is one the crucial part of agriculture. Motor attached with the robot driving the farm field and it is necessary for motion control. It also enables the robot to move in different direction for proper supply of water and other agriculture facility. Synchronization is maintained using rack & pinion mechanism for accurate movement and direction flow.
Motor used for water pumping is will responsible for automatic irrigation by supplying proper water to crops as per the requirements. It picks water from the local ponds and rivers and transfer to the necessary are using an efficient transfer mechanism. Irrigation using automated feature for water pumping is the feature that supports modern farm with robotic feature. Smart irrigation combines the autonomous robots and helps to minimize the water wastage around 40-50% by providing calculated amount of water relies on real-time soil condition analysis. Such robots help serious drought scenarios and increases crop yield though better resource management. This system can be controlled using RF remote, and have suitable remote feature that can schedule the irrigation as per the requirement. The arm used for controlling using RF remote, allows various farming jobs like crop pickings, planting seeds, removing weeds etc. Robots are completely equipped with advanced sensor to identify and detect tasks more accurately. The movement of the arm is controlled by actuators and motors, maintaining accurate and smooth operations.
The RF control allows the famers to control manually and suggest the robot from a far place. It offers control over irrigation, movement, and other related functions, providing ease of operations. Such wireless base system enhances flexibility and allows the users to take a full control on robot without any physical connection. The manual override features using RF technology maintain the long-distance access capability. RF based capability enhances the robot capability in a more flexible way and enable accurate safety and minimizes from harmful hazardous pesticides for from external factors. The rack & pinion feature is integrated to provide linear and rotary motion of the robot. And it is used for the proper position and movement control in particular direction. This mechanism plays a very crucial role for maintain the robot’s working culture like controlling wheels, arm, position to improve the functional efficiency. Controlling arm is used to do the various jobs like harvesting, seeding, weeding etc. This arm equipped with various technology and algorithms that can detect ripe crops, weeds, disease with an accuracy rate of about 90% and this will improve the efficiency of farming. These arms will act as a labor and minimize the human interventions and optimize farming practices to the productivity with lower cost.
The solar power utilized to generate power, which stores about 12V energy to provide the complete system. This power supply drives the robot across the field, activates it to function to the particular location. RF remote controlled is attached with the system to control the robot’s movement and can be monitoring wirelessly. This will help the operators to guide robot for different purposes like harvesting, watering, sowing etc., without any physical involvement. The pumping process using motor is activated to spray calculated amount of water on crops using a drip irrigation process. The complete function of robot can be programmed to function robot automatically based on soil conditions.
The arm of the robot is utilized the different functioning like lifting, placing objects, grabbing in a well organized manned. It can also be used for fertilizing, planting, weed removal and other physical participation work. The mechanism of rack & pinion ensure better controlled and smooth movement of the robot and helps to adjust position and robot’s tools to get the optimal working scenarios.
The smart robot for farm is a groundbreaking solution for latest farming conditions which integrates automation, precision and renewable technology. Using solar power and remote controlled feature with intelligent arm this system improves productivity with reduced labor and physical interventions. Such technology is the future for smart and sustainable smart agriculture and opening the way for environmentally and efficient farming practices.
It adds various advantages like reduction in labor, remote operations, cost effective, energy efficient, precision farming. It helps to promote sustainable agriculture by utilizing renewable power. Ensures better practice in different farming work. Automatically activates farming for different process with flexible operations. , Claims:The following claims define the scope of the invention:
Claims:
1. A smart agriculture farm robot comprising.

a) A system to detect real-time data and tracking of field scenario, maintains proper identification of concerns operations, degrades false or unconcern interventions.
b) The smart tracking minimizes manual load by automatic process of agricultural routine and maintains electronic data, which minimizes human efforts and provide much improved data access feature with timestamps.
c) The robot remotely monitors and identify various agriculture practice and environmental related data, enables better data record and this will be easy to access for stakeholders and farmers.
2. As per claim 1, the smart farming will able to provide accurate and better efficiency in term of agricultural practice, and helps to increase crop productivity.
3. As per claim 1, accessing the data remotely may reduce the effort in data generation and delivers fast, actionable analysis for much better farm tracking and management.
4. As per claim 1, a huge minimized in manual labor, less effort for paperwork and traditional approach for record maintaining gets minimized.
5. As per claim 1, the automated robot aligns agricultural jobs, minimizing the need of huge manpower in both administrative and operational farm process.