Automated Farming Robot
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2021
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Uva Wellassa University of Sri Lanka
Abstract
Robotics is a fascinating field of engineering that provides many opportunities for research. In
addition, the evolution of technology in recent years has led to intelligent mobile robots. As farms
grow in size, together with the size of the equipment used on them, there is a need for ways to
automate processes, previously performed by the farmer himself, such as handling the equipments
himself to perform the task. The control of these robots, however, is a difficult task that involves
knowledge in different areas such as robotics, automation, programming, electronics, etc. The
objective of this research is to technically develop the new agricultural technologies to savings in
terms of both cost and time, to optimize production efficiency, declining availability of manpower,
minimize production-associated risks. Hence automation is the ideal solution to overcome all the
shortcomings by creating machines that perform the operations and automating it to increase yield
on a large scale. In this the robots are developed to concentrate in an efficient manner and also it is
expected to perform the operations autonomously such as Drilling (for plantations of seeds), seed
dispensing and watering. For manual control the robot uses the Bluetooth pairing app as control
device and helps in the navigation of the robot outside the field
Keywords: Farming Robot; Bluetooth module; Arduino;Agriculture; Water pump
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Engineering Technology, Automated, Agriculture, Robotics, Farming Robot