AGRIBOT-IMPLEMENTATION OF ROBOTICS IN THE FIELD OF AGRICULTURE

摘要

Agriculture is the backbone of our country. Farming in the near future has to produce more food and fibre to feed the growing population with the smaller rural labour force and contribute to overall development of countries. Robotics in agriculture has the potential to improve the competitiveness and increase the crop productivity compared to the current methods, thus becoming an increasingly active area of research1 . In this project, robotics and its application in agricultural fields are discussed, that help to increase the accuracy and precision in agriculture. The robot is used to cultivate the agricultural land with less use of manpower. The aim of the Agribot is to reduce the manpower, time and increase the . productivity rate[7]. All the basic agricultural processes such as ploughing the land, sowing the seeds, watering the field, sensing the water content in the soil and harvesting of the crops is done. The above processes are controlled using PIC Microcontroller 16F877A. The transmission and reception of signals are carried out using ZigBee module. The overall process is simulated with the help of a software called Proteus Isis[4].