Smart Agriculture System using Autonomous Robot

The world population is expected to grow at an alarming rate day by day and to feed such a large amount of population, the food production should be increased to a sufficient level. The traditional methods of farming and decreasing of labour availability is making the agriculture sector inefficient and efficiency is also less. The main objective of autonomous robot is efficient use of natural resources and that it reduces manual labour. The autonomous robot can perform various tasks like seeding and ploughing process, fertilizing process, spraying pesticide mechanism and harvesting process. It can also measure the moisture of soil with the help of moisture sensor and also perform automatic water irrigation system with the help of zigbee. It can dig a hole in the soil that is perform ploughing process and then plant a seed that is seeding process. It can spray the pesticide using spraying mechanism. All the above operations are performed by Firebird V Robot with inbuilt ATMEGA2560 microcontroller which is the master and all other are the slaves performing the operations according to the instructions given by the controller. By using image processing and Dexter arm the autonomous robot will detect the tomato and pluck it from the tree and load it to the basket and all this harvesting process is done by Raspberry pi. Raspberry pi gets command from the camera that the fruit is detected and then it performs the desired condition.