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Development and Fabrication of an Autonomous Seed Sowing Robot
Author(s) -
Sweety Dutta,
Udit Shanker,
Sulekha Katiyar,
Venktesh Singh,
Mohd. Zafar,
J. C. Mohanta
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
iop conference series. materials science and engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1757-899X
pISSN - 1757-8981
DOI - 10.1088/1757-899x/691/1/012023
Subject(s) - robot , obstacle , intersection (aeronautics) , sowing , agricultural engineering , grid , mobile robot , productivity , computer science , engineering , simulation , artificial intelligence , mathematics , agronomy , transport engineering , geography , economics , biology , geometry , macroeconomics , archaeology
Automisation of agricultural processes provides the benefits of increased efficiency, productivity, healthy crops, efficient use of resources & material and labour cost savings. In this paper, an autonomous seed-sowing robot is designed to cope up the above goals. The robot divides the field into a grid with intersection points as places where the seeds are sown. The depth of the hole, the distance between points where the seeds are sown is calculated according to government data and is fed to the logic board of the robot. The robot goes to the starting points and makes a hole using a toothed wheel with teeth of increasing height. The delivery system makes sure that only one seed is dispensed per hole and the back plate mechanism fills the hole after sowing is done. Sensors are used for obstacle detection and robot changes its path accordingly. There are several robots available in the market and research has been done on many more, that perform the above functions separately but no one has integrated all the above functions in one system. The proposed robot does this and provides a better solution for low productivity nations.

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