Smart Pesticide Spraying Robot

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Smart Pesticide Spraying Robot

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1PG Diploma in Industrial Robotics, RTMNU’s Oberoi Center for Excellence, Nagpur, India

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2Hod, Asst. Prof. PG Diploma in Industrial Robotics, RTMNU’s Oberoi Center for Excellence, Nagpur, India 3Asst. Prof. PG Diploma in Industrial Robotics, RTMNU’s Oberoi Center for Excellence, Nagpur, India 4Saurabh S. Chakole Asst. Prof., PG Diploma in Industrial Robotics, RTMNU’s Oberoi Center for Excellence, Nagpur, India ***

Abstract The utility of insecticides and fungicides is one of the most important approaches in agricultural manufacturing and can have a good sized impact on crop yield, fine, and in the long run profitability. It is anticipated that approximately 30 35% of crop losses can be avoided whilst dangerous bugs and sicknesses are removed via making use of insecticides. At present, there are extraordinary sorts of pesticides sprayer but the approach for pesticide utility is a manually lever operated backpack kind sprayer. Farmers who are spraying pesticides are tormented by it which makes them extra at risk of their health, eyes and they will also broaden lumbar ache because of the burden of the sprayer. This paper proposes a remotely operated spraying robot designed to lessen the time, reduce labour costs and prevent human hazards involved in spraying potentially toxic chemicals.

Key Words: Pesticidesprayer,Multipointsprayer,human hazards,remotecontrolled,Agriculturaluse.

1. INTRODUCTION

Agriculture plays an essential position in the Indian financial system. For the rural population, agriculture is a vocation for their livelihood. All farmers use pesticides, includingorganicfarmers.Whetherfromartificialornatural sources, insecticides are utilized by all farmers. The differenceisorganicfarmerscanbestuseinsecticidesfrom naturalresources.Butbothsyntheticandherbalinsecticides havevariousstagesoftoxicity.Todaysolutionshugelyrely uponheavychemicals.Apesticideisasubstanceutilizedfor controlling,obviating,andravagingpests.Butwhenfarmers spray the pest, it's far a very harmful procedure for them, theywanttobeverycautiouslikesportingproperclothes, gloves,masks,etc.Ourpurposeistoincrementthecropyield andpreventhumandangersduetopoisonouschemicals.In conventional strategies, operated by hand low and high quantityhydraulicsprayerandelectricityoperatedhydraulic sprayerwithlengthygrowth,lengthylancesorspraygunare usedtoholdfluidatdifferentgoals.Inthisapproach,thetime andlabourrequiredareextra.Itishardtospraythepesticide uniformlyandeffectivelyallthroughthetreewiththeaidof theconventionaltechniqueofspraying. TheHandoperated sprayer’stankweighs15 17Kg.Farmerscarrythisforhours. Which may lead to Shoulder injuries, body pain, or Spinal Injuries.Long termexposuretopesticidescanmotivelossof

reminiscence, tension, temper adjustments, and hassle concentrating. Tractor operated sprayers are tough for adaption with the aid of the farmer because of present croppingstyles,tobehadsubjectsize,areasituationduring the wet season. To overcome those hassle necessities for better adaptability. We introduce a remotely controlled 4 wheeled pesticide sprayer so that it will spray the insecticides and pesticides on the crops with a more expeditiousspeedandwithminimaleffort.

2. LITRATURE REVIEW

Leaf Disease Diagnosis and Pesticide Spraying Using AgriculturalRobot(AGROBOT).Itwillidentifythedamaged leafanditslocationandspraythepesticidesandalsoitwill identifytheleafdiseaseanditwillchoosewhichpestshould beusedforthatplant.Themainproblemintheagriculture fieldisdetectionofdefectedplants.Withthehelpofthese, the defected plants will be identified easily. [1]. The development of a smart sensor based environment monitoring system is developed for that. In the low population areas and mainly in the farmlands etc., in that placestheweathermonitoringisnotpossibleatalltimeso thisprojectwillhelpustomonitortheweather,temperature andallotherclimaticconditionwiththehelpofanIOTdevice [2].AutonomousPesticideSprayingRobotistheengineering solutionbysprayingthehightoxicchemicalsforthedefected plantsatexactlocationoftheplantbytakingallthehealth hazardsandsavesthefarmerfromthepreventionofharm chemicals with in a confined space [3]. Application of intelligentcontrolinsprayingpesticidesimulationsystemit is designed by using the Embedded system software, the mainthemeofthisprojectistospraythepesticidestothe crops.Thissystemisspeciallydesignedforwirelessnetwork systemterminalsthatlinktotheupperdeviceviaadedicated NCnetwork[4].Abionicelectricsprayingrodiscreatedthat performstwooperationsthefirstthingissprayingthewater totheentirefarmandatthesametimeitwillsprinklethe pesticides,asitisinsnakelikestructureitwilleasilyundergo toentirefarm.Thesnakebothavingbonearmandmuscles whichismadeupofmultiplesetofthinwiresanditcanbe controlled by the driver module for pesticide spraying purposeasnakearmisusedwhichisconnectedtothespray nozzle[5].Nowadaysthefarmersareplayingthecrucialrole by working hard in the agriculture lands and planting the

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cropsforthesocietieslivingindifferentregionsforearning theirminimumneeds.InIndiathepesticideusageishigher whichis70%whereastheworld widepesticideusageis44% only.[6]. The main goal of this study was to design and developsoftwareandhardwareforanintelligentsprayerthat cancontrolvariable ratesprayoutputsthroughthenozzles basedonavailabilityofatargetinsightanddensitylevelof thecanopysprayed.Thishasbeenaccomplishedtoalarge degree. However, there is still some ineffectiveness associated with the operation of this sprayer that can be addressedbyfuturestudies.[7]

3. PROPOSED METHOD

TheMethodthatusingisanAutonomousbot.Thisservesas helpinghandtothefarmersbyreplacingthemanualfarming technique with the modern farming technique. In our proposedmethod,thebotwillcontrolbyusing2.4GHzRadio FrequencyWirelessController.Itreducestheworkloadofthe farmersbysprinklingpesticidesbyitsown.Automationasa partofsolution.

Themainconceptofthisbotistomakeanautonomousrobot withthehelpofanArduinocontrollertoreducethehealth issuesofthefarmers.Inourproposedsystemitconsistsof threeparts,theyare:

1.Inputunit.

2.SprayandControlProcessingunit.

3.Outputunit.

Input Unit:

Thepurposeoftheinputunitistogivethepowersupplyfor alloverthecircuitanditwillactasastoragedevicetoofor savingthepesticideliquid.

Spray and Control Processing:

ThemaincomponentofthecircuitisArduinounocontroller anditisalsoknownasHeartoftherobot.Adrivercircuitis connectedtoArduino,whichisusedforthemovementofthe robot.Apesticidepumpisalsousedfortransferringofliquid pesticidetothesprayerheadfromthestoragetank.

Output Unit:

Theoutputunitconsists of directioncontrol unit which is usedforcontrollingthedirectionsviawirelessly.Asperour directions,thesprayingunitwillspraythefertilizerstothe plants.

InthissystemconsistsofArduinounoboard,powersupply, drivermodule,prototypecarmoduleandRFcontrollerand receiver. The main component of the whole system is Arduino uno and it is also called as heart of the whole system,theArduinomicrocontrollercoordinatesthesensor

andothercomponentsautomatically.Inthefig.4.1.thepower supplieswith+12v& 12.Asprayerisusedforsprayingthe pesticides,wheresprayersarecommonlyusedforprojection ofwater,weedkillers,pestmaintenancechemicalsetc.Here L293Dmoduleisused.Itisadrivermotor16pinICitisused for driving the robot on specific directions as per our instructions.Theaimoftheprojectistodesignapesticide sprayingbotwithaviewofsprayingpesticidesalloverthe crop.

BLOCK DIAGRAM:

Fig 1:BlockDiagram

1.Power supply:

Thepowersupply(12v,1.3Ahbattery)willgivethepowerto theinputcircuit,thecircuitwilltakethepowerhowmuchit isrequired.

2.Arduino uno:

ThemaincomponentofthecircuitisArduinoUnocontroller anditisalsoknownasHeartoftherobot.Adrivercircuitis connectedtoArduino,whichisusedforthemovementofthe robot.

3. Wireless Controller:

The 2.4Ghz PS2 DualShock wireless controller (Radio Frequencycontroller)isusedforcontrollingtheoperations and it will send the instructions to its receiver which is interfacedwiththeArduino.

4. Spraying Arm:

Thesprayingarmwithmultiplenozzlesisusedforspraying thepesticidesinthefarmanditisconnectedtothebot.

5.Driver module:

Thedrivermoduleisusedtocontrolthedirectionsofrobot, itisconnectedtotheprototypeofthebot.

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4. CONSTRUCTION AND WORKING PRINCIPLE

TheconstructionofPesticidesprayingmachineconsistsofa framewhichisusedformountingthecomponentssuch as D.C encoder motor, Battery. Fig. shows the pesticide spraying machine. The base is used to carry the whole machine. The movement of the robot is controlled by the commands given to the Arduino wirelessly from a safe distanceviaaradiofrequencycontrollerNowitisonlyleft with the spraying mechanism and the storage device for

pesticidewiththesprayingmechanismthatusesDCmotor for spraying the pesticides, it consists of an arm and a multipointsprayrodisplacedon.Wecanrotateandadjust the nozzle cap by which we can control the fineness of spraying of pesticide. The motor pump that is used in the robotissubmersible.Thatmeansonepartofpumpisusedto insert the pipe and other part is kept outside. A 12v DC supply is used for the supply and it is connected to the battery. The complete mechanism works on battery. In Figure 4.shownthecompletepictureofourrobotmounted witheachandeverycomponent.Thistotalarrangementis usefulinmovementoftheroboticsprayerfrominitialtothe final position. This would help you to understand the workinganditsmechanism.Theworkperformedherehas extendedthegrowthoftheagricultureandimprovementof advancedtechnologyintheagriculturefield.

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Fig -5:SnapshotofVehicleprototype

5. RESULTS AND DISSCUSSION

Whencurrent(I)ispassedthroughthesourcein30RPMDC gearedmotor,thebotinitializes.Inthatinstant,dcenabled pumpcomesintomotioninwhichitspraysinsecticideswith its five nozzles. The machine is being controlled remotely withmaintainingmuchdistanceasaresulthumanswillbe much less vulnerable to the insecticides. As it covers big vicinity in brief succession of time which leads to time efficiency as it takes less time and additionally the labour workforce will be reduced. Moreover, various materials selectedfortheentiremechanismwillbeeasilyavailableata considerablyaffordableprice.Themainproblembeingfaced bythefarmerwastocarrytheentireloadofthepestsonhis shoulder and this problem can be solved by adopting this method.

Thus,theDCmotorpumpalsogivesverypowerfulsprayfor the height plants up to 2 3 ft. In this way, the remotely controlled multi nozzle pest sprayer is going to be a very handyandviableproductforfarmers.Thesuggestedmodel hasagreaternumberofnozzles,thesprayerwillcowlmost placesofsprayinginminimaltime&atthemostrate.Proper adjustmentfacilitywithinthemodelhelpstoavoidexcessive use of pesticides which results in less pollution. Muscular problemsareremovedandthereisnoneedtooperatethe lever.Thispumpalonecanbeusedformultiplecrops.

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