Hardware Software Co-Design of a Farming Robot

Abstract

Food means life and no one can think about living without food. This is the most fundamental human necessity and food security is one of the major global concern of this century. With the revolution and recent advancements in the field of electronics and communication, there has been a paradigm shift from conventional farming ways to the modern one. This paper talks about the development of hardware software co-design of agricultural farming robot. Our developed farming robot has two parts namely hardware part which further consists of mechanical, electrical, control and tools segments and the software part which allows user to interact with the farming robot via cloud service. Our proposed hardware architecture is compatible with commercial Farmbot product and the developed web-based software can be extended for more features and applications. Furthermore, the developed robot has been tested and it works well.

Autonomous Farming Robot

“…ISSN : 2523-6032 ISSN-L : 2523-2924 life and no one can think about living without food. This is the most fundamental human necessity and food security is one of the major global concerns of this century [2][3]. The agricultural sector determines the extent of food production and to an excessive level, the natural state of the earth.…”

“…This study did not only deliver solution to above problems but also provide the foundation of new forms of work and business ideas for farming 4.0. Ilker Unar and Mehmat Topakci [6] developed remote and GPS-guided autonomous robot which may controlled through 3G internet and efficient for image processing applications [25][26]. This proposed system utilizes Joystick to regulate the direction of robot and Navigation software for directing the robot autonomously.…”