The document discusses the design and working of an automatic seed sowing robot. It aims to automate the important but tiring process of sowing seeds. The proposed robot uses four motors and a funnel-like arrangement to pour seeds into a lower container with a shaft and gear-like teeth that pick up and drop seeds in a steady manner. A bent plate drags in the soil to make slots for the seeds, which are then covered by a bent rod at the back. This fully automates the seed sowing process using a mechanized system. The working principle involves power transmission from an engine through a chain and sprocket arrangement to rotate shafts and circular plates that pick up and drop seeds into the ground. Some challenges
The document discusses the design and working of an automatic seed sowing robot. It aims to automate the important but tiring process of sowing seeds. The proposed robot uses four motors and a funnel-like arrangement to pour seeds into a lower container with a shaft and gear-like teeth that pick up and drop seeds in a steady manner. A bent plate drags in the soil to make slots for the seeds, which are then covered by a bent rod at the back. This fully automates the seed sowing process using a mechanized system. The working principle involves power transmission from an engine through a chain and sprocket arrangement to rotate shafts and circular plates that pick up and drop seeds into the ground. Some challenges
The document discusses the design and working of an automatic seed sowing robot. It aims to automate the important but tiring process of sowing seeds. The proposed robot uses four motors and a funnel-like arrangement to pour seeds into a lower container with a shaft and gear-like teeth that pick up and drop seeds in a steady manner. A bent plate drags in the soil to make slots for the seeds, which are then covered by a bent rod at the back. This fully automates the seed sowing process using a mechanized system. The working principle involves power transmission from an engine through a chain and sprocket arrangement to rotate shafts and circular plates that pick up and drop seeds into the ground. Some challenges
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In the accomplishment of this course project successfully, many people have bestowed upon us their blessings and the heart pledged support. We are taking this opportunity to thank all the people who have been concerned with this course project. We are highly in indebted to Prof. Virendra R. Bhokse whose valuable guidance has been the ones that helped us patch this project and make it full proof success. His valuable instructions regarding this project and kind supervision have played a major role in completion of our course project successfully. We would like to extend our gratitude to the Director Prof.(Dr.) RAJESH M. JALNEKAR and to the HOD of DESH Department Prof.(Dr.) C.M. MAHAJAN for providing us with all the facility that was required during this project. Last but not the least we would like to thank our parents who have helped us with their valuable suggestion in various phase of this project. The model has been proposed with the aim to establish a 12kg per hour capacity seed processing plant. As is evident from the financial analysis that the project is sound and estimated results are encouraging and hence the model may be considered for financing under the scheme of GOI for boosting seed production in private sector. The assembly is developed for cultivating ploughed land automatically i.e. less power is required. The blocking of seed problem is eliminated with the help of water pressure. So this model increases the efficiency and accuracy. The project consists of two different mechanisms. The first mechanism contains making an assembly of vehicle and its motion, whereas second mechanism is preparing a seed bed on ploughed land .Due to no man power requirement and high speed of operation, it has scope for further expansion. Why the need for automation? Sowing is the most important process in farming. It is a very tiring and time consuming process that requires a lot of human effort. Here we propose the design and fabrication of a fully automatic seed sowing robot that automates this task. The proposed robot uses four motors for running it in desired directions. We use a small bracket for pouring seeds. The robot consists of a funnel like arrangement in order to pour seeds into a lower container. There we use a shaft with gear like bucket teeth to pick up limited quantity of seeds and pour them on the ground in a steady manner in proper quantity. The front of the robot consists of a bent plate that drags on the soil to make a slot ahead of the machine before seeds are poured in it. The back portion of the robot consists of a tail like bent rod that is again used to pour soil on seeds sowed thus covering them with soil. Thus the system completely automated the seed sowing process using a smartly designed mechanical robotic system. D.C. motor (2V and 100rpm) Shaft Rectangular Container Funnel(Diameter 10 cm) Wheels Mounts Supporting Frame(Wooden) Joints & Fixtures Screws The working principle of our model will start by engine power transmission through chain and sprocket arrangement mechanism. Here engine power shaft is connected to rear axle of the wheel where it produces the torque produces movement of the vehicle and we can control the speed of the machine by controlling the throttle provided in the machine. Simultaneously another sprocket of same size in rear axle is used to maintain the same speed to provide the rotational effect to the another shaft which is below the seed sowing machine equipment the shaft rotates at the same speed as that of rear axle rotates. Here another larger teeth sprocket is used to provide rotational effect to seed sowing machine shaft. As this shaft consists of two circular plates and made a slot at specified distance to easily pick the seeds from the hopper as the rear axle wheels turns due to power transmission of engine the seed are dropped by the circular plate. The circular plates are turned in clockwise direction as the rotational effects provided by shaft and seed are dropped into ground. We are maintaining the speed of the machine very low so it produces maximum amount of torque. Hence the model can be run smoothly on agricultural land. What should be used for chassis development? =The iron metal chassis would be more heavy and more difficult to fabricate, so we decided to use timber wood instead of iron. Also ,to reduce the cost of the equipment.
What type of wheel should be used?
=Normal wheels can’t be used in fields .To overcome this situation we used wheels with spikes which provides better grip with the soil and enables the model to perform the seed sowing operation. 1.When seed is small in size we need manual effort for setting. 2. It is operated on battery supply, if any failure occurs whole system will not function. 3.This machine cannot be operated in uneven land. 4.Cannot work on swampy or wet lands. 5.After a couple of hours the battery should be charged regularly for a smooth application. To meet future food demands the farmers have to implement new techniques which will not affect the soil texture but will the crop production. In the farming process often used conventional seeding operation takes more time and more labour. The seed feeding is also more and total cost is increased due to labour. All the above mentioned problems can be reduced considerably with the help of the automatic seed sowing machine. Fundamentals Of Agronomy Economics Of Farm Production And Management. Wikipedia http://nevonprojects.com/automatic- seed-sowing-robot/ http://www.internationaljournalssrg.org/I JECE/2017/Special-Issues