Autonomous Farming Robot with Plant Health Indication

Agriculture is a field where robots aren't given a significant importance. During the course of this project we made an attempt to scale down human labour by creating an automaton which is able to indicate plant health. Indian economy is based on agriculture. The backbones for food production are farmers. Traditionally farming is done by human being with the help of bullock carts, tractors and tillers etc. In modern era, the main problem in agricultural field include lack of labor availability, lack of knowledge regarding soil testing, increase in labor wages, wastage of seeds and more wastage in water. To overcome this problem we approach designing of agricultural robot for various tasks. Certainly robots are playing an important role in the field of agriculture for farming process autonomously. In agriculture, the opportunity for robot is enhancing the productivity and the robots are appearing in the field in large number.

The proposed system consists of a robotic platform which focuses on implementing all the farming process especially in autonomous farming and plant health monitoring by using microcontroller, DC motors, DC pumps and various sensors etc. in order to identify the parameters like soil moisture, humidity and temperature in the field area. Along with that crop disease detection is done by interfacing camera into our system.

Keywords: Agri-bot, Raspberry Pi, IoT, Crop disease detection, Blynk App.