Soil fertility is an important factor to measure the quality of the soil as it indicates the extent to which it can support plant life. The fertility of soil is measured by the amount of macro and micronutrients, water, pH etc. Soil nutrients are depleted after every harvest and hence must be replenished. To maintain nutrient levels in the soil in case of deficiency, fertilizers are added to soil. Most of the farmers choose to approximate the amount of fertilizers and add them manually. However, addition of fertilizers in right amount is a matter of great importance as excess or insufficient addition can harm the plant life and reduce the yield. Use of modern trends and technology promises to provide a solution to the above problem. Though automated techniques for seeding, weeding, harvesting the crops etc. have been proposed and implemented, none of the techniques target at maintaining soil fertility. The proposed research aims at restoring the levels of Nitrogen, phosphorous, potassium in the soil by the measuring the amount of nutrients present. The presence of nutrients is determined by chemical processes and quantified using sensors. An automated system has been developed for the controlled addition of fertilizers in order to avoid excess/ deficient fertilizers in the soil.

Automatic soil nutrient detection and fertilizer dispensary system

The paper presents about the multiple agricultural tasks done by the single robot. To develop the efficiency of the agricultural tasks we have to find the new ways. This project deals with a novel approach for cultivating lands in very efficient way. Distinctiveness of this agriculture robot system are it is multitasking abilities which can drill, pick and place, seeding, pumping water & fertilizers, weather monitoring to work in both agriculture, afforestation and gardening platform.

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Multi-Purpose Agricultural Robot

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Submission: 18-01-2022 Revised: 28-01-2022 Acceptance: 31-01-2022 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ABSTRACT: This research paper is about agricultural system used to perform various agricultural tasks using various technologies to automate the tasks of farmer. Agriculture is main source of livelihood in India and is considered as backbone of Indian economy. There are various machines, equipment used by a farmer but being costly not every farmer uses them. We have chosen solar energy as source to drive the whole mechanism, to reduce the cost and to reduce the pollution. The three types of farming needs can be controlled by using this machine which is cheap and eco-friendly. The ultimate goal is to provide farmers the cheaper and advanced option to meet the needs of farming.

Agriculture Three in One Mechanism System

This paper describes the Semi-Auto Dosing Robot with Image Processing (SADR-IP) that is applied in the agriculture field. The SADR-IP is developed mainly to automate and replace the human watering plants process. The concept and the design of this project are convenient, easy to activate, and monitor throughout the crop field. The image processing based on PyCharm is employed for this robot allows us to increase the speed and accuracy of the work. In addition, various types of crops can be identified by using this image processing technology so that the robot can dose the correct amount of water as needed. Two Arduino Uno boards are used to move the robot and dosing process with a servo motor. The results show that the SADR-IP is reliable to be implemented in the agriculture field. In addition, the use of PyCharm for Image Processing makes the robot design very new in the dosing robot category due to its practicality for detecting different types of crops.

Semi-Auto Dosing Robot with Image Processing

Agriculture, allied with various sectors has been the largest livelihood provider for India. It also contributes to about 15-17% of the total Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of India. There is a need to decipher the issues like controlled use of pesticides, proper leaf disease detection. The automation of agriculture has emerged as a futuristic technology. This implementation of precision agriculture concept will lead to revolutionary change in the domain of agriculture. The automation concept helps the farmers in increasing the gain from the soil and saving time. Automation has been able to lower the energy required for performing physical tasks. Improvement in the quality of life of the farmers and reducing heavy labor and tedious tasks is the main aim of this work. A prototype of the precision agriculture robot is presented which is designed for performing the functions like ploughing, seeding, sowing, water sprinkling and pesticide spraying function. The robot is a four wheeled module controlled by LPC2148 Microcontroller. The robot also inhabits a leaf disease detection module based on advanced image processing and machine learning which will be used to detect the type of disease affected. Further, suitable pesticide is sprayed to the affected part of the plant depending on the type of disease. Keywords— Precision Agriculture; Leaf Disease Detection; Autonomous Agriculture Robot, Controlled pesticide spray

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Precision Agriculture Robot for Seeding Function and Leaf Disease Detection

Agribot is a robot designed for agricultural purposes. As one of the trends of development on automation and intelligence of agricultural machinery in the 21 st century, all kinds of agricultural robots have been researched and developed to implement a number of agricultural production in many countries. This Bot can performs basic elementary functions like picking, harvesting, weeding, pruning, planting, grafting.

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Akash Bhosale

Papers

Agribot: An Agriculture Robot