Agricultural Autonomous Robot - Abstract and Introduction

  • ABSTRACT:-
Agricultural Autonomous Bot (AGRIBOT) is an agricultural robot which is designed to drop seed at certain distance of desired length by the farmer/client. It has used three 10rpm speed gear motors.
Two of them are used for driving wheels, and one motor is used to move the dropper handle back and fro. The bot is such programmed that it moves 1 foot and then stops and drops a seed, again it moves a foot ahead and drops a seeds. It moves on the programmed path that is stored in its memory. Infrared (IR) Transmitter (Tx) and Receiver (Rx) is used in the seed container to keep the indication of the container whether filled with seeds or not. If the container has seeds in it, the path from IR Tx to IR Rx is blocked, so the Agribot keeps moving forward and dropping seeds. As the container containing seeds gets empty, the signal is transmitted from IR Tx to Rx and connection is made and the Agribot stops.
  • INTRODUCTION:-


India is a land of agriculture where 2/3 of its population practice farming. Most of the farming in the nation is non-mechanized manual farming which leads to more use of labor force, more errors and more time involved for it. In order to mechanize agriculture, we have thought about a concept of ‘Automated Mechanized seed dropper’ which could reduce the efforts taken by farmer in the field and bring more accuracy in seed placements.

The first attempt to use this concept was made by Harvey Koselka and Bret. Their patent application takes priority from and is a continuation in part of United States Utility Patent Application Serial No. 11/009,909 to Koselka entitled "Agricultural Bot System and Method" filed 12/9/2004, which is hereby incorporated herein by reference. By using the same concept we have designed a prototype which would drop seeds at fixed intervals and on a predesigned path by following automation mechanism. Agriculture suffers a great loss because of wrongly placed seeds at unequal distances. This prototype removes this error by dropping seeds at equal distances.

Finally, our aim is to benefit the end user i.e. farmer by providing him a cheap alternative to labor force and increase the production that a field can produce.
Robot for dropping seeds in fields






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