www.tjprc.org SCOPUS Indexed Journal editor@tjprc.org DESIGN AND FABRICATION OF AUTONOMOUS ROBOT FOR PRECISION AGRICULTURE S. RAMESH KUMAR 1 , H. SRIRAM KALYAN 2 , K. DHANANJAYA KUMAR 3 & S. DILIP 4 1 Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation, Guntur, Andra Pradesh, India 2,3,4 Under Gratuate Students, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation, Guntur, Andra Pradesh, India ABSTRACT Autonomous robots are used for the ease of operation and automating the agricultural sector, which in turn helps in high yield and reduction in labor cost. Automated robots are being used in many of the fields such as Agriculture, field scouting, surveillance, industries to reduce the time delay in operation at different levels of the work environment. In this paper, the proposed system is designed and fabricated for the agricultural applications like cultivating without the limited use of manpower. The point of the paper is to lessen the labor and time, assist an expansion in the profitability rate. The basic automation robot is involved in agricultural operations like a removal of weed, harvesting and so on. The designed system performs the operations such as seed sowing, plowing, applying fertilizers during the vehicle in operation. These are performed by the autonomous robot using the microcontroller. The proposed system is equipped with an ultrasonic sensor, which helps in detecting the obstacles and its avoidance. The system architecture is designed and simulated using Proteus. Small and large scale farming can be achieved using either a single robot or by a number of small robots depending upon the area. KEYWORDS: Seeding, Microcontroller, Ultrasonic Sensor & Proteus Received: Mar 24, 2018; Accepted: Apr 14, 2018; Published: May 05, 2018; Paper Id.: IJMPERDJUN201842 INTRODUCTION India is an agricultural country and most of the people depend on agriculture to earn money predominately and fulfil their needs. The financial condition of India depends on agriculture and farmer economy. Now a day’s farming labor availability is decreasing regularly, method of farming is undergoing various upgrades over the time. Agricultural practices have improved and are speeding up with the help of machines. The machine helps in improving the yield and reduces time for work required in the farmland. Most machines are huge and heavy which can be used only in a large agricultural field. These machines may damage the land by soil compaction. Also, these machines require lots of fuel and require maintenance during operation. With the increase in population the farmland has reduced. Many farmers have a small plot of land for agriculture. These farmers cannot support the huge machineries in their agricultural land due to the huge cost of the machinery. Agriculture sector can be modified and transformed with the introduction of small autonomous robots. The robots which do multiple operations are much better than the huge machines which only perform a single operation. The farming process uses a robot with microcontroller for autonomous agriculture. The primary phase includes moving the assembled robot over the farmland from one end to another and also identification of the Original Article International Journal of Mechanical and Production Engineering Research and Development (IJMPERD) ISSN (P): 2249-6890; ISSN (E): 2249-8001 Vol. 8, Issue 3, Jun 2018, 385-392 © TJPRC Pvt. Ltd