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Solar Powered Multifunctional Agricultural Robot

Mr. Amol A. Suryawanshi1, Varsha A. Patil2, Megha B. Patil3, Poonam M. Jadhav4,
Dipak R. Bhandare5, Abhinandan S. Nikam6
1Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering, SITCOE, Yadrav, Maharashtra, India
2, 3,4,5,6UG
Student, Electrical Engineering, SITCOE, Yadrav, Maharashtra, India
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Abstract - More than 40 percent of the population in the agricultural robot which performs digging, sowing,
world chooses agriculture as the primary occupation. levelling and spraying at a single time. Solar panel is used
Advancement of agricultural tools is the basic trend of in our agribot to convert solar energy into electrical
agricultural improvement. The proposed system shows the energy captured by it. The electrical energy generated is
design, development and the fabrication of the robot which used to charge 12V battery. This electrical power is
can dig the soil, sow seeds, level the land after sowing and transmitted to wheel DC motors and other motors used for
spray fertilizers or insecticides, this whole systems works on digging rotor, seed container through relay driver. In this
battery charged with help of solar panel. This robotic proposed plan electrical and mechanical system is
vehicle is controlled through Bluetooth interfacing on collaborated in an efficient way. We are in attempt to
android application and minimizes the labor of farmers integrate and assimilate digging, seed sowing, levelling
increasing the speed and accuracy of the work. and spraying features in our solar powered
multifunctional agricultural robot.

Key Words: Solar panel, Ardunio Uno R3, Digging, 3. OBJECTIVES

Sowing, Levelling, Spraying.
Our intention is to concoct a prototype solar powered
1. INTRODUCTION multifunctional agricultural robot which must execute the
below features-
The main motive for developing Agricultural Automation
Technology is decreasing labor force and increasing the  The first objective to design this agribot is to
processes of digging and seed sowing of crops and make work the whole system on solar energy.
covering the land so that human efforts will get reduce up  The robot must perform digging, seed sowing,
to 90 percent. Especially when the duties, that needs to be levelling the mud and spraying operation at a time
performed, are potentially harmful for the safety or the and complete the entire work in minimum time.
health of the workers or when more conservative issues  Our aim is to curtail human effort and escalate
the applications of instrumental robotics cover further yield by introducing this designed robot.
domains, as the opportunity of replacing human operators.  The motive to operate robot from distance to keep
The proposed model uses basic components like DC farmers away from the hazardous effects of
motors, relay, relay driver ULN2003, Bluetooth module pesticides and insecticides averting their
and Arduino Uno R3 as the main controller. The exposure to farmers while spraying.
mechanical design of the robot is also simple. It is  Cynosure will be on potential labour cost savings,
programmed to carry out the above functions farm structure connotation and sizes for
simultaneously. To perform the function of ploughing it is operation, daily working hours, probable natural
equipped with rotor wheel which is fixed in the anterior brunt, energy costs and safety concerns.
end of the robot, to sow seeds it has a container with
seeds, funnel and its bottom contains a perforation to sow 4. METHODOLOGY
the seeds and finally the posterior end of the robot has a
sloping metal sheet touching the ground to cover the sown The basic aim of this project is to develop a
seeds with soil and level as it moves forward. It is also multifunctional agricultural robot which is used for
mounted with sprinklers and dc spraying motor with a ploughing, sowing, leveling and spraying with minimum
water bag to spray fertilizers and insecticides. cost. The robot is to be powered with solar energy which
is stored in battery in form of electrical energy. This
2. PURVIEW OF PROJECT agricultural robot may be called ‘Agribot’.

The aspiration of our proposed project is designing a

multifunctional robot remotely controlled through
Bluetooth by android application. The preeminent
intention of our project is to advance a solar operated
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5. Operations

The operation performed by the agribot are described as

below

5.1 Ploughing Operation

The elementary purpose of ploughing is to turn over the

top layer of the soil, taking fresh nutrients outward to
surface, while embalming weeds and the remnants of
earlier crops. In the prototype model designed, two DC
motor are used for ploughing the farm. The rotor is
lowered down manually and the soil is dug up to 1 inch.
The operation of the rotor blades can be controlled by the
Bluetooth app in the smart phone.

 The chassis of robot is made of iron square pipes

mounted on four wheels driven by DC motors.
 The ploughing mechanism is fabricated on the
anterior part of the chassis of robot.
 A seed cultivating arrangement is assembled in
the middle of the chassis.
 On posterior side of chassis soil levelling
mechanism is fitted on chassis.
 Insecticides spraying feature is also mounted on
the robot.

The 12V battery is used which is charged by solar 5.2 Sowing Operation
panel. Then supply is given to Arduino Uno R3 board
which is interfaced with relay driver ULN2003. Seven A plastic canister is used for seed storage. We have
relays for seven DC motors are used in the robot. The provided a hole to canister. The canister is placed above
operation of these relays is controlled through the funnel. The canister is powered by DC motor which is
programming in Arduino by relay driver. Four DC monitored by two relays and is controlled by mobile
motors are used for four wheels to perform forward, application remotely via Bluetooth. As the motor is
reverse, left and right operation of the robot. Two DC switched on, the canister tends to rotate and rotation
motors are coupled in parallel and two relays are used makes the seeds fall in the funnel. The speed of the motor
for the operation of forward, stop and reverse can be controlled in programming developed in Arduino.
operation as a single relay performs only two actions An iron nozzle is provided which trench the seeds in
of motor run and stop. One DC motor is used with two ploughed land. The nozzle can be adjusted up and down
relays for canister in seed sowing operation for manually as required.
performing forward reverse operation of motor. The
ploughing rotor is operated by two DC motors with
relays, performing only forward and stop action of
rotor. A manual operation of DC spraying motor is
contrived on the robot. All the operations are
programmed in the Arduino and are operated through
the Bluetooth module (HC-05) by android application.

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Circuit Board of Robot with battery assembly

5.3 Leveling Operation

A metal sheet Plate is used as mud leveller. The movement

of leveller is made manually. As the levelling plate is
moved downward to the ground level, the seed is closed
by the soil and the uneven soil in levelled.

Android Application On Cell Phone Screen

5.4 Spraying Operation

A water container is placed on robot for water storage. A

DC water pump is used for pumping water to the water
sprayer. The water flows to the aerosol through hose. The
power for pump is coordinated by a toggle switch.
6. CONCLUSION

In agricultural filed, the contingency for robots,

augmented yield is colossal. Hence robots are emerging on
farms in various guises and are increasing in numbers. The
alternative dilemmas combined with autonomous farm

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equipments can apparently be overcome with automation. [7] Ms. Sandeep Konam, “Agricultural Aid for Mango
This project is mainly based on curtailing human power as cutting (AAM),”Electronics & Communication
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Affability of automation system is high than traditional
system. The advantage of this system is it diminish the
labor cost, and time. In this design a robot is assembled to
entrench automatic digging, seeding, leveling and
fertilization in a field. The working of the robot is executed
by renewable energy as solar energy. It is presumed that
robot will support farmers in bettering the efficiency of
operations in their farms. It can aid the farmers in initial
stage of farming. One of the advantages of the smaller
machines is that they are more acceptable to the non-farm
community. The jobs in agriculture field are a drag and
require intelligence and speed hence robots can be rightly
substituted with human operator. Robots can improve the
quality of our lives but there are downsides. At present in
our country all agricultural machines are working
manually or by petrol engine or tractor. Humans can’t
work for long time manually. To avert this condition, we
need some kind of power source system to operate the
digging, sowing, leveling and sprinkling at a time. This can
be achieved by our solar powered multifunctional
agricultural robot.

7. References

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