Automatic Agricultural Robot — Agrobot

Abstract

Agriculture is a time consuming as well as labour demanding sector nowadays. Traditional methods of agriculture will lead to huge losses to farmers both in productivity as well as financially. This paper focused on the development of a novel model named Automatic Agricultural Robot - Agrobot which can execute the operations like digging the soil, planting seeds, and watering with more precision and accuracy with the help of robotics and automation. This will be a solution to the time constraints and labour issues and it helps to achieve a higher rate of production. Agrobot is a four-wheeled robot integrated with Arduino mega 2560. The ultrasonic sensor interfaced to Arduino senses the edge of the field and helps in the automatic movement of the robot. The device can be operated by providing input through an android application. The values like distance between the seeding, direction to which the robot turns at first, the number of seeds to be planted in one hole, etc. are given as the initial inputs to make the robot starts functioning. Agrobot will also help to reduce the usage of petroleum products in the agriculture sector and thereby reducing environmental pollution.