Design of an Agricultural Land Maintenance Robot

Abstract: In the process of crop production, there are several obstacles such as growth of weeds, lack of labour to prepare the land, and expensive equipment. We have developed a prototype of the robot that can be used for weeding, leveling and ploughing tasks. The project has been developed keeping the poor farmers in view. Hence an affordable system has been proposed. smaller, cheaper and efficient robot that can perform. The system also detects obstacles and avoids collision by taking a detour. An user-friendly webpage is developed to interact with the farmers. The webcam relays a live stream of the video onto the webpage for remote monitoring and also clicks snapshots which are processed inorder to identify the unwanted weeds and determine the percentage of weeds present in each snapshot.

Keywords: Agriculture Robot, Weed detection, Collision avoidance, Raspberry Pi