Vol. 12, Issue 10 (2023)

Author(s):
P Dhivya, K Muhammed Omar Abbass, R Rajeswari, A Sangeeth Raj and V Vishwa

Abstract:
Exponential growth of population leads to enormous food demand which creates more stress on agricultural sectors. There are many factors affect agriculture production, one among them is weeds. It will compete with main crop in terms of water, nutrient, sunlight, spacing, energy etc. So weed removal is the biggest task to farmers in present scenario because of lack of labour availability. To overcome this difficulty for farmer, in this study Automatic Solar powered Robotic weeder for Cassava crop is proposed because it has more than 10 type of weed during growing stage. In each stage, removal of weed is not possible by manually and to make machinery application robotic mechanism with solar power is proposed in this study. It can be done by assembling the components like battery, cameras, sensors, gear unit and developer kit etc. After that, performance evaluation of newly fabricated Robovator prototype will be carried out.