AGROBOT

S SAI PRASHANT (19BME1096)

Agricultural activities come with great strain on farmers. Ergonomic stressors identified include forceful
exertions, stooping, prolonged static postures, awkward positions, continual bending and twisting at the
waist while handling excessive or asymmetrical weights. Farming and other agricultural activities are
indeed recognised as being hard physical work .

Our Aim: Creating a conveyable multi-functional robot to assist farmer’s in common labour intensive
agricultural practices on the sphere.
PROPOSED SOLUTION

▪ Having a little compact structure sort of a robot, which can autonomously pass on command, can save
plenty of labour effort on the sector. For any mobile device, the power to navigate in its environment is
very important.

▪ It was estimated that the Agricultural robots market will reach $16.5 Billion by 2022.

▪ Robots have high safety and hygiene measures. They can work 24 hours a day and relieve human workers
of those difficult physical tasks.

▪ By 2050, world population is anticipated to rise to nine billion, but the quantity of arable land meant to
grow food will remain mostly the identical as today. But it's estimated that 25% increase in productivity
will support this growing population.
Comparison
Sr. no Parameter Manual Tractor Robot

1 Seed Wastage Medium Very High Less

2 Manpower Very high Medium Very less

3 Time More Less Less

4 Cost per sq ft Moderate High Less

5 Irrigation Normal sprinkler Travelling Mechatronic

• Our main objective of the project is to make an multitasking Agrobot which can work on rough or smooth, soft
or hard , wet or dry soil. The rocker-bogie system is the suspension arrangement developed in 1988 for use in
NASA's Mars rover Sojourner, and which has since become NASA's favored design for rovers. We are going to
analysis the stability of the system and animate the stability of the model in rough surface.

• A cylindrical like structure has been wont to drop the seeds at their location. This structure is formed from
acrylic sheet and is connected to vibrating DC motor and the seeds flow through this cylindrical like shape
through the drilled hole.
 Methodology

▪ When the soil moisture sensor detect low level of water in soil, pump will start automatically for
watering. When the soil moisture detect enough water content in the soil, the pump will stop.

▪ A cylinder like structure has been used to drop the seeds at their location. This structure is formed
from acrylic sheet and is connected to vibrating DC motor and the seeds flow through this
cylindrical like shape through the drilled hole at a particular distance.
▪ Rocker bogie mechanism will help the Agrobot to go through any kind of surfaces.
▪ 1) The steps of implementation are:

▪ 2) Enter the length.

▪ 3) Enter the width.

▪ 4) Select the mode.

▪ 5) Microcontroller inputs the worth into the

▪ 6) Algorithm.

▪ 7) The algorithm is executed.

▪ 8) Reset once the execution is completed.

▪ Aluminum
▪ Stainless steel
▪ Servo motor
▪ Soil moisture sensor
▪ Arduino uno
▪ Under water pump
▪ Breadboard
▪ Buzzer
Model
Drafting of the model
Coding of Arduino board
Simulation (Ansys, Solid works)
Continuation
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

▪ We made a simple porotype our prototype consist of Arduino, bread board, servo motor ,under water
pump, soil moister sensor and Arduino IDE software for coding the prototype.

▪ The main two functions of our robot was to detect the water content in the soil to detect if the water
content is less then motor will pump the water using underwater pump if the moisture content reaches
specific level then it will automatically stop sprinkling the water from the pump.

▪ This is the servo motor from which we use for the seed planting we have instructed it for every 5 seconds
closing and 2 seconds open for our prototype for the requirement for the seed we need to plant we can set
that timer it revolves around 180 degrees.

▪ The dimensions (length and breadth) of the fields are to be entered directly in Arduino as when it is
programmed and after entering the length and breadth of field, mode is to be chosen in which the robot is
made to work.
▪ This is an easy-to-use digital soil moisture sensor. Just insert the sensor within the soil and it can measure
moisture or water level content in it. It gives a low within the soil.
▪ The sensor includes a potentiometer to line the required moisture threshold. When the sensor measures
more moisture than it set threshold, the digital output goes high and an LED indicates its output.

▪ When the moisture within the soil is a smaller amount than the set threshold, the output remains low. The
digital output are often connected to a microcontroller to sense the moisture level. Weighs around
10grams.
Conclusion
Agriculture is that the primary occupation of our country, India. With the technological
advancement all told spheres, agriculture has also witnessed developments with the introduction
of robotics and automation. The project presents the thought of a robot which simplifies the
method of farming. The robot is provided with a soil moisture measuring sensor for measuring
soil conditions based on that water will be pumped automatically and it has a rocket bogie system
which makes the Agrobot move through any kind of surface . All these processes are often
controlled by the mobile application which is remotely placed. This robot helps in automating
agriculture and also saves stack of laborious work and repetitive tasks of a farmer. In an
exceedingly not too distant – but still imaginable – future, farmers and agricultural scientists are
among aids within the kind of agronomic robots. The role of the long run Agrobot would want to
be more complex & would want to embody the tongue of agricultural science as a discipline.
Links

▪ prototype video : -

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qJZjnwf1Y7l2jq4k7TlAbfqa8JfEY5mV/view?usp=sharing

▪ Animation:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1js0EgCvvUGOmI1LEiGh5JHNlajMwNJ67/view?usp=sharing

▪ Drafting:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ICrCQ7aHEgir5H9GskbeqYsTB4Y_hGRc/view?usp=sharing

▪ Survey link:-

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/153RSubzhNbW1g- pS9utGZRrXOMFR45dHSjiwz4vKdao/edit?usp=sharing