Development of an autonomous agriculture robot for fertigation using arduino

Rosman, Irham Mukhlis (2023) Development of an autonomous agriculture robot for fertigation using arduino. Project Report. Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

Agriculture is about growing things for food, fuel, and other products, involving tasks like planting and harvesting. Fertigation is a process of applying fertilizer to plant crops through an irrigation process which play a key role in agriculture. In red chili farming, challenges like drought and lack of resources affect how much chili is produced. Infectious plant diseases are caused by live agents called pathogens. Microbes like nematodes, fungi, bacteria, and mycoplasmas are some of the culprits that infect plants and lead to diseases. Moreover, traditional agriculture required lots of manpower and hard to maintain in this climate change. The main purpose of this research is to develop an autonomous robot prototype for the advancement of existing fertigation technology. This research also working on the designation of an algorithm of an autonomous robot for path mapping. Finally, a full depth analysis on the performance of the autonomous robot in fertigation. This research oriented on the study of development that have been made by other researcher to find a better solution in fertigation that are economical and environmentally friendly. Arduino microcontroller is used as the command center for the autonomous robot to execute command that have been specified to it. The primary goal of this research is also path mapping because the robot prototype is difficult to manoeuvre because of the irregular path of the crop field. Then, this research also will analyze the effectiveness of the method presented with the robot prototype in fertigation compared with technology that have been prevailed. Automation of the robot will be the main topic discussed in this research to provide semi autonomous robot for fertigation in fertigation.

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