Seeding And Fertilization Using An Automated Robot

Robotics is one of the fastest growing engineering fields of today. Millions of dollars are spent every year on the developments of robots to be used in all sorts of field. The use of robots is more common today than ever before and it is no longer exclusively used by the heavy production industries. Robots are designed to remove the human factor from labor intensive and/or dangerous work. In modern farming applications, so many different types of automation techniques are used for easy and staff less operations that includes the important functions like seeding and spraying fertilizers. The system uses so many automatic methods, which require very less labor. The project intends to develop a prototype of an autonomous agricultural robot that includes an automated guidance system, and has applications in different stages of horticulture. A general concept for a field crops robotic machine is to selectively harvest or easily weed the desired prototype. Future trends must be pursued in order to make robots a viable option for all agricultural operations such as to plough the field, saw the seeds, plant saplings, weed the weeds, water the plants, and spray insecticides and pesticides. Microcontroller P89V51RD2 is used to intelligently monitor the robot. Keil uVision4 software provides an integrated development environment to develop a program to do the same.