Synopsis of

AGRICULTURAL ROBOT
OR
AGRIBOT















A Thesis
to be submitted by

SACHIN SHARMA
RITESH KUMAR
RAHUL AWANA


for the award of the degree of

Bachelor of Technology in
Electronics & Communication Engineering






Department of Electronics & Communication
Engineering
Mahatma Gandhi Missions
College Of Engineering & Technology

August,2014
1> INTRODUCTION

An agricultural robot or agribot is a robot deployed for agricultural purposes. The main area of
application of robots in agriculture is at the harvesting stage. Fruit picking robots, driverless
tractor / sprayer, and sheep shearing robots are designed to replace human labour. The
agricultural industry is behind other complementary industries in using robots because the sort of
jobs involved in agriculture are not straightforward, and many repetitive tasks are not exactly the
same every time. In most cases, a lot of factors have to be considered (e.g., the size and colour of
the fruit to be picked) before the commencement of a task. Robots can be used for other
horticultural tasks such as pruning, weeding, spraying and monitoring.

2> FRUIT PLUCKING ROBOT
One of the major problems faced by the fruit growers is the fruit getting damaged due to falling
on ground while plucking from the tree which results in huge loss to the fruit grower. Another
major problem faced by the fruit growers is shortage of skilled labor due to which the fruit
grower is unable to harvest the fruits at right time. As a result, the fruit gets over-ripe and
becomes useless which also results in loss to the fruit grower. The fruit plucking robot which we
are designing will overcome these problems and the loss to the fruit grower is avoided. The fruit
plucking robot which is being designed by us once comes in to use, it will solve lot of problems
faced by fruit growers during harvesting. The problems like shortage of skilled labor, long
process of manually plucking of fruits, damage of fruits, over ripening of fruits, high cost of
labor, and danger for the labor personnel from thorns & reptiles in the gardens etc are the major
head-weights for the fruit growers. The fruit plucking robot is the ultimate solution to the above
said problems and it will ease the head-weights of fruit growers. As a result the fruit growers will
be encouraged to grow more and more fruits. Also the use of fruit plucking robot is a important
step in the modernization of technology in the field of agriculture.


BLOCK DIAGRAM OF FRUIT PLUCKING ROBOT







3> WEEDING
Weeds rob valuable nutrients from the soil and compete with your hard-earned herbs, flowers,
shrubs and vegetables. And because they can shelter harmful insects and diseases, it's important
to eliminate weeds.
The robot is required to pick out short yellow wooden sticks representing weeds among other
taller green sticks representing plants in an arena. The robot will detect the weeds and uproot
them and drop them in designated deposition zones without any human intervention.

PICTORIAL REPRESENTATION OF WEEDING ROBOT
4>REFERENCES
www.keprtv.com/.../Robots-replacing-fruit-pickers
decibel.ni.com ... Projects & Products Documents
https://www.asme.org/engineering.../robotics/smart-robots-for-picking
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-540-75404-6_51
www.abe.ufl.edu/wlee/.../RoboticWeedControlSystem-PrecAg.
www.unibots.com/Papers/mobilerobot