Intelligent spray system for agricultural application

Agriculture is considered the backbone of Pakistan's economy, which relies heavily on its major crops like cotton, rice, wheat, sugar cane, etc. Agriculture accounts for about 18.9% of Pakistan's GDP and employs about 42.3% of the Labour force. However, the major problem of our agriculture sect

Project Title

Intelligent spray system for agricultural application

Project Area of Specialization

Robotics

Project Summary

Agriculture is considered the backbone of Pakistan's economy, which relies heavily on its major crops like cotton, rice, wheat, sugar cane, etc. Agriculture accounts for about 18.9% of Pakistan's GDP and employs about 42.3% of the Labour force. However, the major problem of our agriculture sector is low productivity and efficiency. One of the reasons for low productivity is little use of modern technology in agriculture sector. One of the important agriculture operations are spraying of pesticides and sprinkling of fertilizers. These operations are very tedious and demands high standards of safety precautions. The use of Robotics can help farmers in improving efficiency and safety of spraying of pesticides and sprinkling of fertilizers. The proposed system is an agriculture robot. It is based on cost effective components like Raspberry pi microprocessor  for the control of agriculture robot, wireless camera to track the
path of the robot as well as monitoring for safety , stepper motors which facilitate the robot wheels to move and android application
 with navigation buttons to guide the robotic
movement are incorporated  in this agriculture robotic vehicle
to make efficient and safe spraying of pesticides and sprinkling of fertilizer.

Continuous supervision of the agricultural field is possible
with automatic performance of such agricultural vehicles.

Project Objectives

The project has following objectives:

1. To develop process maps of spraying of pesticides and sprinkling of fertilizers operations
2. To design agriculture Robot.
3. To develop the agriculture Robot
4. To test the performance of developed robot.

Project Implementation Method

The project implementation methodology includes four steps i.e. field visits, system design, development and performance tests of the proposed system. The

field visits will help in developing process maps of targeted agriculture operations. Based upon these process maps, system will be designed in second stage. Third stage of project implementation is system development. The agriculture robot will be developed in accordance with identified parameters and requirements. Finally, Performance tests of the developed agriculture robot will be conducted in real environment.

Based upon the conceptual design, system architecture of the agriculture robot has been made and it is shown in the figure below

Figure: System Architecture

As shown in the figure, the proposed Agriculture Robot has various components such as Raspberry pi microprocessor, Infrared sensors, GSM module, Camera, robotic vehicle, Bluetooth Module, Power supply unit, Pesticide tank and sprinkling pump.

The main feature of the system is Raspberry pi microprocessor which will be programmed through python language to control the system according to system specifications.

Benefits of the Project

1. Low cast application
2. Remote monitoring of the crop
3. Efficient and safe spraying of pesticides
4. Efficient and safe sprinkling of fertilizer.

Technical Details of Final Deliverable

The final deliverable is an agriculture robot with following components.

1. Raspberry Development Board Model B

The Raspberry Pi is a Broadcom BCM2835 system on chip board. The raspberry pi comes equipped with a 700 MHz, ARM1176JZF-S core CPU. The raspberry pi comes equipped with 512 MB of SDRAM. The USB 2.0 ports use only your external data connectivity options. The Ethernet is the raspberry pi main gate way to communicate with other devices and the internet in model B. The raspberry pi draws its power from a micro USB adapter, with minimum range of 500 MA (2.5 watts). The graphics specialized chip is designed to speed up the manipulation of image calculations. This is equipped Broadcom video core IV cable and it is useful if you want to run game and video via your raspberry pi

2. IR Sensor 

3. Power Supply Board

4. Sprinkler Tank 

5. DC Geared Motor ( 12 Volts, 100 RPM)

6. System Architecture 

The proposed agriculture robot vehicle which would navigate in between the

crops based on the instructions given by the farmer using android application.

The farmer can use any android smart phone for this application to move the robot. Farmer can control pesticide sprinkling device through IOT application.

Moreover, the farmer can track any intruder if detected in the field. Farmer will receive a picture of his farm when an intruder is detected. He will obtain a

message or notification from robot about the event occurred in the farm. The robot, as it is placed in the field captures the image of the intruder, provides a way to view the crops or path of the robot using wireless camera. The signal is received at the operating end and viewed using mobile. In this way. Not only the monitoring of crop is possible but safe operation of the robot is ensured.

Final Deliverable of the Project

HW/SW integrated system

Core Industry

Agriculture

Other Industries

Others

Core Technology

Robotics

Other Technologies

Internet of Things (IoT)

Sustainable Development Goals

Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, Climate Action, Life on Land

Required Resources

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