Date of Publication :19th August 2021

Abstract: Agriculture has been the backbone of the Indian economy and it will continue to remain so. However, timely farming operations such as seed sowing, harrowing, pesticide spraying, and measuring the moisture have become very important to get a good yield. Hence, nowadays, with the advances in robotic technology, it can serve as a very useful tool. With the advantages of robots such as hands-free and fast data input operations, Multitasker Agri-bot is designed in a way so that it can perform all the major agriculture operations, remotely. It is an electromechanical vehicle that is steered by hub motors to drive wheels, the farm is cultivated by an automated system, depending on the crop considering rows and specific columns. The bot is controlled remotely by using a smartphone. There is a plant health monitoring system that uses a web camera to detect any disease of a plant. Sensors present in the system can gather data from its environment, based on which it takes the right decisions, then send commands to other parts to take action. In this, a robot is controlled by Node MCU and Raspberry Pi. Power to the bot is given by 48v LiFepo4 and power to various functions of the bot and electronics component is provided by 12v LiFepo4. 7inch display screen shows data and sends the command to control some actuators. The bot is designed using CATIA software and node-red is used to create GUI (Graphical User Interference). Multitasker Agri-bot has a run time of 6 hours resulting in better efficiency and productivity

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