Agricultural robot designed for seeding mechanism

Frontiers in Automobile and Mechanical Engineering

Sunitha, K.A.^1 ; Suraj, G.S.G.S.^1 ; Sowrya, C.H.P.N.^1 ; Sriram, G Atchyut^1 ; Shreyas, D.^1 ; Srinivas, T.^1

Department of Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering, SRM University, TamilNadu, Chennai, India^1

关键词: Agricultural robot;    Conveyor belts;    Cost effective;    Driving forces;    Human actions;    Human interference;    Minimum distance;    Toothed gears;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/197/1/012043/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1757-899X/197/1/012043

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

In the field of agriculture, plantation begins with ploughing the land and sowing seeds. The old traditional method plough attached to an OX and tractors needs human involvement to carry the process. The driving force behind this work is to reduce the human interference in the field of agriculture and to make it cost effective. In this work, apart of the land is taken into consideration and the robot introduced localizes the path and can navigate itself without human action. For ploughing, this robot is provided with tentacles attached with saw blades. The sowing mechanism initiates with long toothed gears actuated with motors. The complete body is divided into two parts the tail part acts as a container for seeds. The successor holds on all the electronics used for automating and actuation. The locomotion is provided with wheels covered under conveyor belts. Gears at the back of the robot rotate in equal speed with respect to each other with the saw blades. For each rotation every tooth on gear will take seeds and will drop them on field. Camera at the front end tracks the path for every fixed distance and at the minimum distance it takes the path pre-programmed.