DESIGN AND FABRICATION OF AUTONOMOUS ROBOT FOR PRECISION AGRICULTURE

Autonomous robots are used for the ease of operation and automating the agricultural sector, which in turn helps in high yield and reduction in labor cost. Automated robots are being used in many of the fields such as Agriculture, field scouting, surveillance, industries to reduce the time delay in operation at different levels of the work environment. In this paper, the proposed system is designed and fabricated for the agricultural applications like cultivating without the limited use of manpower. The point of the paper is to lessen the labor and time, assist an expansion in the profitability rate. The basic automation robot is involved in agricultural operations like a removal of weed, harvesting and so on. The designed system performs the operations such as seed sowing, plowing, applying fertilizers during the vehicle in operation. These are performed by the autonomous robot using the microcontroller. The proposed system is equipped with an ultrasonic sensor, which helps in detecting the obstacles and its avoidance. The system architecture is designed and simulated using Proteus. Small and large scale farming can be achieved using either a single robot or by a number of small robots depending upon the area.