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PROJECT TITLE
SOLAR BASED MULTI-TASKING AGRICULTURE VEHICLE

Name of the students Name of guide

Nilesh N Gunjikar(1sg16ee432) Mr. Guru prasanna
Raghavendra M(1sg15ee070)
Supriya P R(1sg15ee089)
Shashank K S(1sg16ee443)
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CONTENT
•Introduction
•Literature review
•Objective
•Methodology
•Implementations
•Vehicle layout
•Conclusion
•References
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INTRODUCTION
 Research in agricultural technology
 Efficiency in crop production
 Grass cutter operated on engine

 Agricultural vehicle is powered by solar energy.

 The advantage of this solar based multi-tasking agricultural

vehicle is that it does not require any fuel
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Literature review
Author Title Inference

HARLIL DURMUS The Design of General This paper strives to

IEEE paper Purpose Autonomous develop a robot capable of
Agricultural Mobile- performing operations like
Robot fertilizer and pesticides
spray , crop cutter

R Ramaprabha Modeling and simulation Use of Solar panel and

IEEE paper- 2017 of solar PV array under battery(connection)
partial shaded
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Author Title Inference

IEEE paper-ANKITA.A Agricultural Robot for •This paper strives to develop a

& R.PRAVEENA Automatic Ploughing and robot capable of performing
Seeding operations like automatic
Ploughing, seeding. It also
provides manual control when
required and keeps tabs on the
humidity with the help of
humidity sensors.

Book by Mark ARDUINO Step by step guide to master

Torvalds PROGRAMMING Arduino hardware and software
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OBJECTIVE
 To provide affordable, compact, multi-purpose agricultural robot
Effective use of renewable energy
To provide effective soil analysis
Wide range of operation
 Cost effective
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METHODOLOGY
BLOCK DIAGRAM
VEHICLE SECTION:
SOLAR

PANEL

BATTERY

ARDUINO
BLUETOOTH
UNO

MOTOR
RELAYS
DRIVER

MOTOR

FERTILIZER
SEEDING GRASS CUTTER
SPRAY
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SENSING SECTION:

SOIL MOISTURE SENSOR

ARDUINO UNO

LED
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IMPLEMENTATIONS
Detection of moisture content in the soil
According to the instruction and specified rate led glows
 Water is pumped
 Simultaneouly ploughing and seeding is carried out
Depending on requirement grass cutting can be used
VEHICLE LAYOUT

Solar
panel

Battery

Seeds Water Tank

Bluetooth Arduino Relays

Cutter

Plough

Wireless
communication
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Components
 4Dc-gear motor: 300rpm,12v
 1Dc-gear motor: 500rpm ,12v
 1 Servo motor (DC ):1.6kg-cm,4.8v to 6v(operating vtg range)
 Motor drive circuit L298N: 2A,5v to 35v(operating vtg range)
 Arduino Uno(Atmegha328p)
 Bluetooth module HC-05
 4-channel relay(dc): 5v to 24v( operating vtg range )
 Battery: 12V Dc
 Soil moisture sensor
 LED
 Water pump: 2.5v to 6v( operating vtg range )
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CONCLUSION
By this vehicle we have achieved a compact and multitasking equipment which
involves grass cutting, fertilizer spray and moisture sensing.In additional to this
implementations like ploughing and seeding is done.Finally we provide a low cost
and efficient equipment for farmers
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REFERENCES

[1] . R. Gonzáles, F. Rodríguez, J. Sánchez - Hemosilla, and J. G. Donaire,

"Navigation Techniques for Mobile Robots in Greenhouses," American
Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 153-
165, 2009.
[2]. A. Gollakota and M. B. Srinivas, "Agribot — A Multipurpose
Agricultural Robot," in India Conference (INDICON), Hyderabad, 2011,
pp. 1-4.
[3]. Tu, Xuyong, "Robust navigation control and headland turning
optimization of agricultural vehicles" (2013). Graduate Theses and
Dissertations. Paper 13188.
[4].R.Ramaprabha and B.L.Mathur (June 2007). "Modelling and Simulation of Solar
PV Array under Partial Shaded
Conditions."ICSET 2008. 7-11. Retrieved on May 6, 2008 from IEEExplore.
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