Design and implementation of semi-autonomous anti-pesticide spraying and insect repellent mobile robot for agricultural applications

Abstract

Agricultural applications (farming) is one of the oldest profession for humankind. On the other hand, there are so many methods applied to keep plants health and condition in full life cycle to achieve sustainable without any chemical effects to human labor and to the environment as an output. This study represents design, build and testing of a low cost semi-autonomous robot called "X-Bot" to achieve agricultural tasks more efficient and precise by using current technological advancements. Main goal of this project is to design, fabricate, program a low-cost mobile robotic system to perform pesticide spraying and insect repelling tasks in the field efficiently without seeking any human interaction during operation.