Auger Drilling and Seeding Mechanism for A Mobile Agribot

Abstract

In the agricultural field it is very important to know what the yield of certain product is after harvesting. one of the main reason farmers do not get a high yield of crops is the cause during the planting and seeding processes the methods used are not efficient enough. The purpose of this project is to design a Drilling and a Seeding Mechanism for the Agribot. We have chosen the Auger Drilling Method to be the method that we will use for drilling purposes. An auger drill may be a boring gadget, or boring tool, utilized for creating openings in wood or in the ground. It ordinarily incorporates a pivoting helical screw edge called a 'flighting' to travel about as a screw transport to eliminate the penetrated-out material. The turn of the sharp edge makes the material move out of the opening being bored. The seeding mechanism is made on the basis of seed hopper on the rail mechanism. The mechanism works on the principle or a train on a rail track whereas in this case we have seed hoppers on the rail which are then transferred and placed into their respective holes. The drilling and seeding Mechanism will be designed on the software SOLIDWORKS/CREO and the ANSYS software will be used to perform the stress and force analysis on the design of the robot. Both the modules were tested and simulated in real time environment, and it was observed that the mechanisms designed for the mobile Agribot were working. The drilling mechanism dug a hole sufficient enough to place seeds in it whereas the seeding mechanism was working fine where is seeder rail was moving with a sufficient speed in the right direction to place the seed into their respective holes. for future endeavors it is decided that we will integrate these mechanisms onto the mobile agribot once it is developed.