Farmbot genesis setup for indoor farm management

Zainal, Mohamad Azri (2019) Farmbot genesis setup for indoor farm management. [Project Paper] (Submitted)

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Abstract

Robotic in farming are being developed to help agricultural management of farm in seeding, irrigating, monitoring (environmental) and most important is soil analysis. Robotic in farming will make the farming precise because all parameters can be set from the start of crops planting process until its harvest. Robot can replace specific task base on how it is designed and the crops chosen to be planted. The design of a robot will usually be specific to its chosen task especially in agriculture where processes and crops are very different. Robotic in farming had been developed as early as 1920s with research incorporating automatic vehicle guidance and it has led to advancement between 1950s and 1960s of autonomous agricultural vehicle . Robotics have mostly been incorporated in indoor environment by industries for decades since outdoor robots are more complicated and difficult to be develop because of the dynamic environmental effect and the most important thing is the safety of the robot itself. Farm-Bot Genesis is a small scale open-sources farm robot constructed from v slot aluminium extrusion and aluminium plate and bracket. It is driven by four stepper motors with rotary encoders and Farmduino (previously using Arduino with Ramp shield) microcontroller driven by Raspberry Pi3 computer. Farm-Bot was design to work in a specified field area which manage and monitor the growth of crops in that farming plot. This plot can be an indoor and outdoor raised bed or even an outdoor field. The robot can be set up as small as 1m2 until maximum 18 m2 with crops as tall as 1m height. With some additional hardware modification it maybe possible to scale the Farm-Bot concept to cover approximately 50 m2 and maximum plant as tall as 1.5 m height.

Item Type:	Project Paper
Faculty:	Faculty of Engineering
Depositing User:	Ms Siti Mariam Giman
Date Deposited:	17 Nov 2022 01:04
Last Modified:	17 Nov 2022 01:04
URI:	http://psaspb.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/526

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