Under the guidance ofINTERNAL GUIDE :- Mr.JAYARAJ N(Asst. Professor ,Dept. of ECE,TOCE)

EXTERNAL GUIDE :- Mr.SRIDHARAN B (Project leader at DRAX,C-DOT)

Project Carried out at C-DOT, Electronic city, Bangalore

Presented By

1.Dhanush V 1OX11EC021

2.Gnanendra Reddy D 1OX11EC027

3.Ganesh Timmappa Hedge 1OX12EC406

ROBOTIC IRRIGATION USING ARDUINO

The technology has developed in various fields including the agriculture.

In agriculture there are many automatic machines developed in order save the human energy and time but they are either won’t be much efficient features or economical in cost.So we have developed a irrigation robot which is capable of doing all basic function required to be done by a farmer

ABSTRACT

As the world’s population is tremendously growing every day and land resources being unutilized, there is a large requirement of agricultural productivity. In order to increase agriculture productivity ‘I-farming’ is used. But still there is no autonomous process where the farmer need not spend lot of energy in his farm and lands for controlling the action of fertilizing, watering, sowing seeds and maintenance of plants.In our automating irrigation robot we have developed the features that is availing the farmers a portable and an easy tool to use that will automate the various processes that the farmer does .

INTRODUCTION

At present there are two kinds of Irrigation Robots are developed and implemented are as follows

• Irrigation Robot which is capable of performing actions such as watering (Aquarius robot) and fertilizing the plants.

• Agricultural robot which is only capable of sowing the seeds(Smart Seeder).

EXISTING SYSTEM

We have developed a portable automate irrigation robot system that performs the tasks of the farmers such as sowing the seeds, flattening the land, spraying fertilizers or water and cutting the crops .The challenges of this project are :

1. To flatten the irrigation land through flattening mechanism.2. To integrate fertilizer spraying mechanisms on the robot as well as watering the plant.3. To integrate a mechanism for sowing the seeds in the crop land .4.Finally, cutting mechanism used to cut the crops.

PROPOSED SYSTEM

BLOCK DIAGRAM

Project model

Flattening mechanism by robot

For this feature functioning we are using a DC motor(300RPM) controlled through motor driver which in turn controlled by ATmega328 microcontroller on chip program. The depth at which land has to be flattened is based on the amount of delay(turn on/off the motor) declared in the program. Sowing the seeds by robot

For this feature functioning we are using a DC motor(10RPM). To control amount of seed is to be sowed is carried out manually and DC motor is used to control the depth at which seed to be sowed. This DC motor is controlled by the ATmega328 microcontroller based on the delay(turn on/off the motor) declared in the program.

WORKING PRINCIPLE

Watering the crops based on soil moisture and spraying the pesticides by robot

For this feature functioning we use a DC submersible water pump, soil moisture sensor and DC motor(300RPM). Dc motor (300RPM) mechanically moves the soil moisture sensor against the soil in depth and checks whether the soil is wet or dry. Based on the condition of soil the DC submersible water pump is made to allow the flow of water/fertilizer to the crop growing land.

WORKING PRINCIPLE(Cont.)

Cutting mechanism carried out by robot.

For this feature functioning we are using three DC motor (1000,10RPM) controlled through motor driver which in turn controlled by ATmega328 microcontroller on chip program. The depth at which crop has to be cut is based on the amount of delay(turn on/off the motor) declared in the program for DC motor(10RPM).The cutting is done by rotating two DC 1000RPM motor in opposite direction. The each activity performed by robot intimated to

farmer using GSM module.

WORKING PRINCIPLE(Cont.)

SOFTWARE USEDArduino 1.6.1

HARDWARE USEDArduino Uno R3 board (Atmega328)Soil Moisture Sensor (LM393)IR Sensor (LM324)DC Motor (10RPM, 300RPM, 1000RPM)Motor Driver (L298N)Power Source(12V, 7.5AMP/20HR)Water Pump(12V DC SUBMERSIBLE PUMP) GSM Module(SIM 900A)

SOFTWARE AND HARDWARE REQUIRMENTS

FLOW CHART

To save water, money and man power in the agriculture sector.To solve the labor problem. To save the farmer time. The design, which will be efficient and effort reducing to the farmer.

ADVANTAGES

This system may improve the way of agriculture is done by the farmer to save money, time and energy. This system may monitor and report real time situation of the robot in an accurate manner to the farmer's mobile, thus helping the farmer to be aware of the tasks performed.By implementing this project in the field of agriculture we can help the farmers in the various stage of agriculture i.e. during the seeding and fertilizing.This project is very useful for the farmers who are intended to do agriculture activity but facing the labor problem .

CONCLUSION

Devices for Automatic Irrigation Based on GSM Network and Radio Communication published in Control,Automation,Robotics and Vision 9th International Conference on 5-8 Dec. 2006 by IEEE.Design and Implementation of Seeding and Fertilizing Agriculture Robot , Shiva Prasad B S ,Ravi Shankar M N , B N Shoban , ISSN 2319-4847 , Volume 3 , Issue 6 , June 2014 . Design of Remote Monitoring and Control System with Automatic Irrigation System using GSM-Bluetooth , Purnima, S.R.N. Reddy,International Journal of Computer Applications (0975 – 888), Volume 47– No.12, June 2012www.arduino.ccwww.roboticstommorow.com

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