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Agriculture Aid -Seed Sprinkling and Crop Care-taking Mechanism
Abstract:
Since olden times man has been cultivating and depending heavily on the plants and crops to arrange for the staple food. To do this he had to toil and severe with labor. As the technology advances people wish for more and more comfort, reliability and fast operations. India is a farmer’s country and major part of the revenue is generated out of the agriculture industry.
Keeping the above ideology in mind we propose to design a unit with the following features:
1. Ploughing
2. Seed sowing
3. Seed sprinkling
4. Harvesting
5. Pesticide Sprinkler.
Explaining all these points in detail:
Ploughing is one of the first steps in farming. During this process we till the land and make it ready for the seed sowing. By tilling we mean that a plough will be used which will have teeth’s like structure at the end and will be able to turn the top layer of soil down and vice-versa.
Seed sowing comes next where the seeds need to be put in ground at regular intervals and these needs to be controlled automatically. Limiting the flow of seeds from the seeds chamber is typically doing this.
Seed sprinkling is another way to put in the seeds where the seeds are supposed to be thrown in the tilled field. We shall control this feature by making the seeds come from the top in front of a high-speed fan, which can be controlled to move in any of the directions.
A harvester is a mechanism, which will have a Horizontal moving blades mechanism, which can keep cutting the standing crop.
Another problem faced by the farmers is the locust and the other plant damaging insects which hosts in the fields. This needs to be taken care by sprinkling, pesticides and other chemicals on the plants.
Typically all these things are done manually and require time and effort from the farmer. Moreover the convention method is a slow process and throughput is primarily driven by the efficacy of the labor being employed.
The proposed mechanism will be a chain drive mechanism which has an advantage of higher balancing capability and proper weight distribution over the conventional wheeled ploughs.
This will facilitate the sowing of seeds through a pipe connected to the seed tank and will be controlled by a mechanism to restrict the flow of seeds. Controlling a high-speed fan and pouring seeds in front of it will achieve the sprinkling.
Harvester is a horizontal multi blade arrangement in circular fashion, which supports in cutting the standing crop with ease.
This arrangement will be consisting of various motors, chains and pipes and its controlling mechanism. The electronic control mechanism will be supervised by an Atmel’s 89C51 micro-controller.
In this project we will be covering and understand the following topics:
 8051 Hardware Designing
 Coding in 8051 Assembly
 PCB designing and concepts
 Controlling and driving mechanism of Relays to control External Devices.
 Motor controlling mechanisms
 Temperature and other sensors monitoring
 Modeling etc.