Design Encompassing Mechanical Aspects of ROTAAI: RObot to Aid Agricultural Industry

摘要

Agribots are soon going to be employed for the labour intensive, menial and tiresome tasks pertaining to agriculture. Cost-effective Agribots are deemed to be the future of agricultural industry for they have been widely portrayed as having the potential to increase agricultural productivity and solve issues daunting farmers. This paper introduces ROTAAI (Robot to aid agricultural Industry), a multi-faceted Agribot that could analyze the terrain, cut the mangoes and avoid animal intrusion in addition to already established seed-sowing, fertilizer spraying, manure spreading and watering the farms. Considering the sheer amount of intense modelling, extensive circuitry and complex image processing algorithms required to describe the functioning of Agribot, present paper has been confined to only the mechanical aspects that are crucial and fundamental to the design of Agribot. Theoretical field capacity has also been addressed owing to its importance in the design.