Abstract: Agriculture has always been an important occupation; most of the population depends on agriculture as their occupation. The current strategies for seed planting, pesticide splashing, and grass slicing are costly and badly designed to deal with. So the horticultural framework in India ought to be empowered by fostering a framework that will lessen labor and time. The main aim of invention is to reduce manpower by developing a robot that does the activities like seeding, ploughing, and watering. In addition to this, we are using a soil sensor to check the moisture in the soil. Solar panels are used for power backup. Robot can receive the commands from embedded C and which is connecting to ESP32.The advantages of robots are decreased human mediation and proficient asset usage. Guidelines are passed to the framework which guarantees no immediate contact with human and accordingly security of administrator is guaranteed. The robot is sun-oriented fueled consequently it is an environmentally friendly power source. By utilizing this high-level work, a rancher can save additional time and furthermore lessen part of the work cost. 5 claims & 2 Figures
Claims:The scope of the invention is defined by the following claims:
Claim:
1. A solar based smart agricultural robot for seeding, ploughing, and watering. The device comprising:
a) Solar battery input gadget is described in that the convert charging device is connected with capacity battery.
b) Soil sensor which is find out the water content level in the soil.soil moisture sensor comprising the soil moisture content probe and it is placed at the inner region of the system. This sensor is to find out the water content level in the soil.
c) An Omnidirectionals wheel drives by the drive motor are used to guide the speed of the robot, which is installed on the wheel shaft separately.
d) The USB interface WiFi adapter of integrated with Bluetooth is described the interface module comprises the external interface that is connected with described terminal equipment.
2. According to claim 1, solar panel which supplies the charging power to the battery which is connected with storage battery.
3. As mentioned in claim 1, soil sensor which identify the moisture level of the soil, which gives direction to the processor, whether water required or not to the soil.
4. As per claim 1, motor driver which is used to control speed of the robot and directs the robot wheel to the particular direction.
5. As mentioned in claim 1, controller is exceptionally operable to control the controller to move the detecting module to the found object. , Description:Field of Invention
The present invention relates to, solar power based agricultural robot. It is more efficient and reduces the man power for agricultural activities like seeding, ploughing, and watering. The robot is sun-oriented fueled consequently it is an environmentally friendly power source.
Background of the invention
The improvement of our farming robot and the thought used to execute them began with the investigation of different techniques. Planning, utilizing and analyzing a self-sufficient multipurpose vehicle (Ankit Singh, et. al.[2015], International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer and Communication Engineering ,4(1),.pp.317-319) with a protected, solid, and financial activity. This self-governing vehicle moves towards the harvest path of cultivating field and performs obligations that are tedious. It has been ready for splashing, however different setups are additionally planned, for example, cultivating, plug framework to arrive at the most eminent space of the plants to demonstrate various tasks and a truck to move the organic products, harvests, and yield side-effects. The agribot wheels are well planned so it can move effectively in delicate and wet soil. A agribots (Sagar, et.al.[2015], International Journal of Engineering Sciences & Research Technology,.4(2),pp.368-371) with the advancement on mechanization of agricultural equipment, a wide range of agribots have been investigated and created to apply loads of horticultural improvement in numerous nations. This bot does the essential capacities like picking, harvesting, weeding, and planting. Image processing is utilized to recognize grass in the field and furthermore the stature of the yield. Improvement in farming strategies like programmed planting of seed items on furrowed land by utilizing programmed robots.
The robot (Nithin, et. al. [2016], International Journal of Engineering Research, .5( 6), pp. 1129 – 1254), can dig the ground, however, the seed items, leveler which very close to the soil, sprayer is used to apply water, these total frameworks of the programmed robot cooperates with the force supply and the sunlight based fuel energy. The controlling activity of the robot is finished utilizing a rack and pinion instrument. A programmed robot (Aditi, et.al.[2017], International Advanced Research Journal in Science, Engineering and Technology, 4(2), pp.97-99), equipped for completing systems like modified cultivating, water system, and treatment. Moreover, it gives manual just as auto control. The essential segment is ARDUINO that regulates the total process. Right now, robots are essentially being incorporated into working various roles to displace human particularly to execute tedious positions. Seeding is the principle step in farming. In this cycle, cultivating is done in each column of the cultivating plot.
A method of harvesting, pruning, culling, weeding, measuring, and managing crops. Uses autonomous and semi-autonomous robots comprising machine-vision using cameras that identify and locate the fruit on each tree, points on a vine to prune, etc., An action plan may comprise operations and data specifying the agricultural function to perform(US8381501B2).Agricultural operations by applying flexible manufacturing software, robotics and sensing techniques to agriculture. In manufacturing operations utilizing flexible machining and flexible assembly robots, work pieces flow through a fixed set of workstations on an assembly line. At different stations are located machine vision systems, laser based raster devices, radar, touch, photocell, and other methods of sensing; flexible robot armatures and the like are used to operate on them. The agricultural automation will make it possible for large scale farming to take up labor intensive farming practices which are currently only practical for small scale farming, improving land utilization efficiency, while lowering manpower costs dramatically(US6671582B1).The system includes a traction control system and a traction platform. The traction control system includes a traction control unit, a range sensor and a network communication interface. The traction platform includes a controlled traction control unit, a network communication interface, an aerial support, a traction rope, a traction motor, and a traction support assembly. The method includes the following steps: a location distribution of aerial supports and a route planning of the traction rope are performed according to the terrain and distribution of crops. (US20190031443A1).
The objective of this invention is to develop a robot that does the activities like seeding, ploughing, and watering. In addition to this, soil sensor to check the moisture in the soil. Solar panels are employed for power backup to the devices.
Summary of the invention
In the present innovative invention, is to develop the hardware and software for solar powered autonomous agricultural robot. From observation it clearly shows that it is easy to use, reduces man power, accurate, precise, time efficient and user friendly. The solar powered autonomous agricultural robot has been developed and the functions of the robot can be controlled precisely. This solar powered autonomous agricultural robot is expected to overcome problems such as physical work which requires a lot of energy, wastage of water as it doesn’t water the soil unless it’s necessary and it is not just suitable for small fields but also works just fine in larger lands. By utilizing this robot, rancher can save additional time and furthermore decrease part of work cost.
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In the figures which are illustrated exemplary embodiments of the invention.
Figure 1 Functional diagram of solar based agricultural robot
Figure 2 Hardware setup of solar based agricultural robot
Detailed description of the invention
The embodiments of the present disclosure provide agriculture robot. Agriculture is the basic source for living species and 70% of our country depends on this to survive. Many invention have been exposed in the development of Agriculture and today our project helps in a technical method by using a robot. This robot is fast and the operation is easy, it also reduces the time and labour work. Human involvement is very less and the process will be done in a clear way. Here the robot gets energy from the solar panel and does all the work which is operated using wifi, which sends the sign to the robot, and for this we need to write a programme to operate. ESP232 which is low cost, low power with integrated Wifi and Bluetooth. Solar moisture sensor which is accustomed to determine the moisture substance and when the earth is dry it senses and the L293 is a Motor Driver of 16-Pin IC, it is inured to put the motor in operating mode and can move two DC motors at a same time. This DC motors are categorized in many ways depending on its size and types. Basically, this is the combination of embedded systems, this embedded systems are controlled by microcontrollers or processors. Today lot of industries is using these systems for process control. This controls many devices nowadays and being so advance and common use. To save costs, embedded systems are frequently used and it has cheap microcontrollers.
As there not much advancement in the technology in the field of agriculture there is a requirement for new methods to be executed. The interaction of seed planting is a critical part of field farming. Once the planning for the advancement in technology is enacted, the headway in the design is formulated. The process of disseminating assumes a significant part of horticulture field. For some yield assortments high exactness machine planting is used for various seed sizes coming about even dispersion. Wi-Fi is utilized as recipient. Primary hindrance of the framework is robot moves just a single way. At any moment if there exists a blockage the electrical power is put off spontaneously.
The agronomics governed the consequences of numerous cultivation methodologies and mechanisms. The robot functions are based on the likeness of ultrasonic observation for the sake of switch in posture. The robot doesn’t function admirably on all categories of loams, this is a principle disservice. Current device working is straight forward. Thus the heed rate can be expanded adequately and the work issue can be diminished. Examination of the already designed robots has an issue with the motion and mowing of the model. Above issues are viably tended over the project that is being developed. It is also mandatory to know how much space is to be left between each plant while sowing the seed and plant. 8051 establishes a communication channel linking the information and yield gadgets. Principle disadvantage of this frame work is that it comprises of just a single technique. Solar powered autonomous robot is constructed by programming the hardware components for ploughing, seeding, pesticide spraying and watering. The solar powered autonomous agricultural robot is placed on the ground, and then the robot is controlled by giving the controls through an android mobile application. The commands are already available in the application we have to connect it through the ESP32 module.
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