Saturday 22 December, 2012

AGRICULTURE BASED ROBOT- E&C Project


INTRODUCTION:

 India is agriculture based country. More than 70% of the people are the farmers. They grow rice, paddy, wheat, etc. Agriculture is the backbone of our country. Till recently the farmers were using age-old instruments in cultivating their lands. They themselves were putting the manual labor. Hence there was not the labor- problem. There agriculture laborers were skilled in their work. Their son & daughters were also trained in this work from the beginning. And they continued that work. But now the youngsters are attracted by the city life & jobs in the towns. They are not ready to continue their family work. They have no interest in that also. Therefore the poor farmers are facing the acute shortage of laborers. It has become a burning problem. Many lands are left uncultivated.

So more & more auto-machines & equipment  are to be discovered. Especially in spraying the pesticides to the farm, nursery, and these machines which can save time and do the timely work are a must. In this respect robot will be of great use. It will save time, money, human energy and manual labor. It must be designed and manufactured in such a way that it must be the friend-in-need of the farmers. If it is so single man can do such works and innumerable uncultivated lands can be cultivated and the country will not suffer from food-shortage. So we developed a prototype model of “Agriculture Based Robot”.

PROJECT OBJECTIVES:

The objectives of this project are:

Ø  It can be used to spray pesticides to the paddy fields.
Ø  It can also be sprayed to more distance.
Ø  We can control it by sitting at home.
Ø  It will reduce the gain of human energy& manual laborer.                     
Ø  It will save the time& money.
Ø  It can be used to spray pesticides to the crop in the field and also nursery
WHY IT IS NEEDED?

 Till recently the farmers were using age-old instruments in cultivating their lands. They themselves were putting the  manual labor. Hence there was  the labor  problem. Farmer’s facing this type of labor shortage. Because,  now the youngsters are attracted by the city life & jobs in the towns. The farmer’s struggled from this laborer problem. To solve the laborer problem this type of robot can help more to the farmer’s. and also the farmer’s save the money by adopt the robot in agriculture field.

ABOUT THE PROJECT:

The figure 1.1 and figure 1.2 shows the implementation block diagram of “The Agriculture Based Robot”. The block diagram consists of Microcontroller Unit ( P89V51RD2), IC, RS-232 port, Key-pad, TV, Wireless Camera, Motors &driver circuit, etc.

Robot System: 





Robot Unit:
It is nothing but a receiver. This unit consists of receiving antenna, receiver, decoder, 8051microcontroller IC, motor driver circuit & motors. Here the signal is received from the antenna and goes to receiver. Then we can decode signal with the use of decoder. All motors are controlled by the motor driver circuit & with the help of 8051microcontroller.                                                                        
                                                                                                                                                                                                         Camera Transmitter:
It consists of camera, RF controller, transmitter, & transmitting antenna. Here the camera capture or view the images. That can be converted into RF signal and transmitted through an antenna.

Robot Controlling Unit:




Controlling Unit:
It is our actual transmitter. It consists of controlling switches, Encoder, and Transmitter. Here the spraying action and all other actions are controlled by this unit.
Camera receiver: 
It has a receiving antenna to receive the signal. And this can be displayed with the help of TV. This is a part remote controlling unit.

Operation:
The following steps briefly demonstrate our project.
STEP1:- Our robot helps to farmers in such a way that, control it by sitting at home. We can construct/adopt the camera circuits for this application. The robot gives the clear picture as well as noiseless sound. So we can see your fields sitting at home.
STEP2:- With the help of robot, we can spray pesticides or water to the field. And the robot covers more distance of the fields. We can use submersible pump for spray pesticides to more distances.  



STEP3:- The moving right, left, forward, reverse, all type of action are controlled with the help of the transmitter and receiver. All these action take place when the user pressing the keypad. So the user can move robot in critical areas & also it can be easily controlled.

CIRCUIT DIAGRAM:





ADVANTAGES & DISADVANTAGES:
Advantages:
Ø  It can be used to spray pesticides to the crop in the field and also nursery.
Ø  It can also be sprayed to more distance.
Ø  We can control it by sitting at home.
Ø It will reduce the gain of human energy& manual laborer.
Ø  It will save the time& money.
Disadvantages:
Ø  Initial implementation cost will be more.
Ø  Special knowledge is required to operate the system.
Ø  Alternate maintenance required.

CONCLUSION:
Till recently the farmers were using age-old instruments in cultivating their lands. They themselves were putting the  manual labor. Hence there was not the labor- problem. There agriculture laborers were skilled in their work. Their son & daughters were also trained in this work from the beginning. Farmer’s facing this type of labor shortage. So we are introducing the robot to solve all these type of problems. The key-features of our robot is,
Ø  Due to the advancement in technology we are using our beautiful project Agriculture Based Robot. It helps us for fast working, consumes our precious time, and saves human power.
Ø  So our main intension is to bring new change in the field of agriculture and to improvise India in agriculture and also improve Indian economy.

FUTURE SCOPE:
Our robot can be implemented as climbing robot in future. And spray the pesticides to the areca-nut trees. Also we can make it as plucking robot for the plucking of areca-nuts. In future it can be used as areca-nut plucking by making small changes in hardware parts and software parts. We can also add features like weed plucking. We can also use it as a security for our farms. It can be used to even do daily house hold activities. Due to this robot we can reduce human efforts and human work. Due to lack of human resources we can use this robot to reduce human work and manual laborer problems in the agriculture field.

The below three figure shows the 2 options are available to implement our robot. That is, make it as walking robot or climbing robot. To make our robot as climbing robot then, there are two type options. That is, itself the robot has climbing parts and another method is to use the climbing machines. We can implement all these to robot then it can be easily climbing the coconut as well as areca-nut trees. 

Project Made By: Venkatagiri Hegde-9241382192

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