IMPLEMENTATION OF A WIRELESS MOBILE ROBOT FOR INTELLIGENT FARMING

Abstract

Over the past few years, there has been significant awareness in designing intelligent robotic devices for use in external outdoor environments, which can independently sense, analyze and react to their own surroundings. The agricultural sector is already experiencing enormous challenges such as limited availability of arable lands, increasing requirement of water resources, and variation in climatic conditions. Also due to the recent advances in computer and related technologies, still the farmers are not adapted to those technologies as they are neither poorly managed nor designed for their particular needs. One method to address these various issues is to develop sensing technology to make agricultural farms more intelligent. In this paper a novel wireless mobile robot using ARM7 microcontroller is designed and implemented for carrying out various operations on the field. This proposed wireless mobile robot is equipped with various sensors for measuring different environmental parameters. The main features of this novel intelligent mobile wireless robot is that it can execute tasks such as moisture sensing, scaring birds and animals, spraying pesticides, moving forward or backward and switching ON/OFF electric motor. The robot is fitted with a wireless camera to monitor the activities in real time. The proposed wireless mobile robot has been tested in the fields, readings have been monitored and acceptable results have been observed, which indicate that this system is very much useful for intelligent farming.