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Automatic Seed Sowing Robot

Vidya Yedave1, Punam Bhosale2, Jyoti Shinde3, Prof. Jagdish Hallur4
1,2,3Student of Graduation, Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, SVERI’s College of
Engineering, Pandharpur, Solapur University, Solapur, 413255, Maharashtra, India.
4Professor, Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, SVERI’s College of Engineering,

Pandharpur, Maharashtra, India.

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Abstract – Agriculture is a most important field in life of The main aim of our project is to reduce the human effort,
human being. It is a backbone of our country economy system. time requirement and to increase accuracy of the seed
In this project work we have focused on seed sowing processes sowing project design.
and tried to solve the problem. In seed sowing machine system
we have used battery powered wheels, dc motor inbuilt in 1.2. Proposed System
these wheels and Arduino Uno is used for control the all system
process. When the seeds are empty it detects the level of The proposed method consists of the system which provides
storage seed and indicates with the help of LED. When any fast soil loosening, sowing seed and robot moves forward in
obstacle comes in-front of machine or divert path the seed automatic mode. Here in manual mode robot moves forward,
sowing machine can detect the obstacle very easily with the backward, left, right by remote for this RF module is used.
help of IR sensor. In each complete rotation of rotating wheel The 12v battery is used for giving power supply to system.
there is seeds falls from this seed drum and the seed plantation The Arduino Uno is used to operate the motor drivers.
process can take place smoothly as well as without wastage of The DC motor is used in the robot applications. Here we can
seeds. The end of system machine reached and it create alarm use L293D driver motor for control two motors. The
or indicate the LED. This system provides all the facility which L293D motor driver is used to control two motors in
can work efficiently. both directions. The left and right side motors are used to
drive the motor from turn left and turn right. The mechanical
Keywords: Atmega328, Arduino Uno, battery operated set up used to loosening the soil and sowing seed.
wheels, IR Sensor.
2. LITERATURE SURVEY
1. INTRODUCTION
Table -1: Literature Survey Overview
As we know backbone of our country is agriculture. Recently
numbers of changes are happening in agriculture technology Sr. Title Methodology Remark
like ploughing, seeding, fertilizing, weeding, harvesting, No
spraying etc. For developing our economical condition it is Design and This system is This paper is
necessary to increase our agricultural productivity and implement- controlled by mainly based on
quality also. Out of them Seed plantation is one of the most ation of microcontroller minimizing man
important and day-to-day job of the farmers. With the help of 1 seeding assembly. power and cost of
automation the work becomes easy and errorless. Robots agricultura-l the equipment,
small sized wheels performs well, the lightweight of the Robot. which can be
robots do not compact the soil. affordable to all
farmers.
1.1. Existing System Seed Sowing A)Electric The mode of
Using Assembly operation of this
The conventional method for seeding is manual one but Robotics Design. machine is very
manually seed filling method suffers from various problems. Technolog-y. simple even to
2 B)Mechanical the lay man.
Conventional techniques depend on human power and old Assembly
techniques; it requires more time and more efforts. Humans Design
need rest, they may not be able to work in hazardous
environments also large sized wheels required in muddy soil Seed Sowing This is an The seeds have
it may be compact the soil. In agriculture we require skilled Robot. Electromechani been sowed in a
man power. Need of man power can be accomplished by cal: Wireless proper sequence
automating the process of soil loosening and sowing seed by 3 control of which results in
robot. So conventional system suffer from various problems. automated proper

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guided machine germination of 4. TECHNOLOGY USED

seeds.
4.1. Arduino Uno:
Agriculture The By using
Seed Sowing microcontroller innovative seed Arduino Uno is the heart of system which is connected with
Equipments: is used to sowing all the sensors and other hardware assembly required to
A Review. control and equipments we achieve the desire work. The features of Arduino Uno that it
4 monitor the can save more is a small, complete, and breadboard friendly board based on
process of time required for the ATmega328.The ATmega368 has 32 KB of flash memory
system motion seeding process. for storing code in which 2 KB is used for the bootloader.
of vehicle The ATmega368 has 2 KB of SRAM and 1 KB of EEPROM. It is
5 Design and Autonomous In each complete low cost and easily available controller. All the software
Developme- agriculture rotation of programming is written in Arduino Integrated Development
nt of system is rotating Wheel Environment (IDE). Arduino IDE is open-source software
Automatic controlled by there is seeds which makes it easy to write code and upload it to the
Seed Sowing microcontroller falls from this Arduino board. It runs on the Windows, Mac OS X, and
Machine. assembly. seed drum and Linux. Interrupts are used in programming to make system
seed plantation more effective and respond to changes accordingly.
process taken
place. 4.2. Arduino IDE software

3. SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE IDE stands for integrated development environment. It is a

computer program that encompasses the tools required by
programmers to develop software. Common elements found
Architecture of system gives overall idea of the project and
in an IDE include a source code editor, compiler, builder and
how system components are connected to each other and
debugger. Programmers use IDEs over simple text editors
perform there role of work in this project. Arduino Uno is
because of the convenience they provide when writing code.
main technology used in this project. A 12V power supply is
Examples of IDEs include Visual Studio Express, Eclipse and
provided and passed through regulator so that it can be
Net Beans. Every IDE has its unique features and benefits,
converted to 3.3v and provided to Arduino Uno. The input
along with their own drawbacks. IDEs have specific language
given as embedded ‘C’ Code to Arduino device which is
support, with some being limited to only one programming
interface with L293D motor driver IC and the output from
language. They also vary according to the different kinds of
this is given to motor. The motors are connected to wheels
software development, such as mobile, web and desktop.
which moves the robot and seed plantation process is done.

Block Diagram: 5. Expected Result

By putting the seed and fertilizer in rows at desired depth

and seed to seed spacing, cover the seeds with soil and
provide proper compaction over the seed. The
recommended seed to seed spacing and depth of seed
placement is varying from crop to crop and for different
agro-climate conditions to achieve optimum yields.

Fig.a: Block dia. of proposed system.

Fig. System Model

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from the chamber and it sow in the ground as required
depth with the help of plough. Also the any obstacle
comes in front of seed sowing machine the IR sensor
are detect that obstacle and indicate the buzzer.

7. Future Scope

The project can be improved with reference to the

number of arms we are using in order to sow the seed.
We can extend up to 6 or 8 rows at a time. This reduces
the time required for seed sowing. The system can be
further modified by one or many systems can be
monitored through GSM system.

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