Intelligent Farming using Delta Robot

Robots play helping role in small scale farming and gardening. This can be done with help of Intelligence introduced in robots thereby assisting the farmers. Drones fitted with thermal camera can interact with crops by monitoring the ambient temperature to sense and sprays water, organic fertilizers and pesticides automatically with Artificial Intelligence (AI) process. The proposed model also adds a feature that whenever birds attack the crops, an active piezoelectric buzzer along with a controller enables the drones to detect and move against the birds with a loud noise to drive them away preventing the crop damage. The third feature of the work is crop health monitoring. Health condition of the crop is analyzed with a robotic arm mounted on a moving vehicle along with an image sensor that moves along in the field or garden. The arm takes the picture of the crops, analyzes the crop patterns and identifies the bugs and pests using image processing (binary inversion, dilation). The database for the same is created consists of possible information about pests, diseases, growth conditions, climatic factors. Machine Learning technique is used to train the drone for decision making and to spray the pesticides automatically. Finally the harvested vegetables and fruits are freshly packed with the help of delta robots and robotic arms. This prevents processing stage and adulteration, thus it retains 100% of nutrition. This method will revolutionize the impact of organic farming in the future.