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International Journal of Advanced Research Trends in Engineering and Technology (IJARTET)
Vol. II, Special Issue VIII, February 2015
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Agricultural Harvest with Incarcerate Image Using
Single Board Computer
S.Sathesh
1
, S.Maheswaran
2
PG Scholar, Department of ECE, Kongu Engineering College, Perundurai, Tamilnadu, India
1
Assistant Professor (SLG), Department of ECE, Kongu Engineering College, Perundurai, Tamilnadu, India
2
Abstract: Agriculture is one of the most traditional processes and it provides employment to over 60% of the population in
India. Coconut cultivation is one of the necessitate agricultural activity in the world. The regular plucking of coconuts,
which is done manually to a large extent, requires specialized labours. It is a tedious process, in order to overcome the
shortcomings, image processing based coconut harvesting system is incorporated systematically. The coconut image is
captured from real time and given to the system. By using the image processing algorithm the maturity of the coconut is
discovered for reaping. Image processing code is implemented with the ARM11 based Raspberry Pi using Linux OS. Using
an IP based wireless colour camera the coconut image is captured. Using the binary colour feature extraction, the colour of
the coconut husk is taken and distinguished between different ripeness levels of the coconut. These processes can be
quickly performed by the system to identify the maturity level of the coconut. Finally the development board is interfaced
with the coconut harvesting robot to do harvesting process using wireless control.
Keywords: Advanced RISC machine (ARM), Reduced instruction set computing (RISC), Internet Protocol (IP), operating
system (OS).
I. INTRODUCTION
At present, there is a shortage of labour in the agriculture
sector and hence, machines have really helping a lot of
farmers. The production of various agricultural
commodities like coconut, mango, rice, wheat and so on
are identified manually that it has time to reap.
Sociocultural compulsions made crops like coconut,
economically viable for the planters. The standard plucking
of coconuts and spraying of pesticides to coconut trees,
which is done manually to a large extent, requires
specialized labours. This activity is traditionally carried out
by the socio-economically backward communities, where
men are trained in the skill of climbing trees rapidly and
plucking the coconuts or spraying pesticides. These
communities are distributed wherever coconut trees are
cultivated in large number as coconut plantations. The
traditional manual harvesting method for coconut is very
labour intensive. The manual harvesting method is shown in
the Fig 1.
Fig 1. Manual Plucking of Coconuts.
In this situation our society needs a coconut plucking
robot with vision system guide to discover the maturity of
the coconut for harvesting. By a coconut plucking robot we
mean of a device consisting of an automatic vision system
and hand-held remote and a display on the ground, a
climbing bottom portion, a robotic arm and a camera
mounted over the cutting section. The Multi-axis robotic arm