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INTRODUCTION

The trend toward using agribots is expected to increase exponentially to help alleviate a shortage of human farm labor. Today robots for fruit picking, collecting fruits and sorting have successfully done jobs that previously required human manual labor. Thousands of robotic harvesting machines are in a place worldwide, and mobile bots are helping farmers automate tasks such as feed pushing and cleaning manure.

The goal of this module is to move from defning the problem to designing a solution. We begin by learning about the exploration phase, and we will exit this phase with a number of design concepts for peer review. We also learn how to decompose a design to evaluate its overall function, and essential process in creating good design essential to the life of our design. Finally, we learn how to critically examine past design artifacts to inform our current concepts so that we can sensibly differentiate our product.

From this we build trust among our team mates. which also helps in the personality development and with individual self confidence and coordination among us.

About harvesting and collecting machine

So as we already know that machines tend to make our lives easier. They can actually carry out our tasks in a faster , quicker and more efficient way. So the aim of our model is to make the lives of farmer more easier and generate more production with minor energy within a limited time. Worker might be more dedicated to their work when they make use of machines like this. So we make use of things like arduino , variety of sensors, mechanisms to make our machine work.

Working principle:

Machine mechanism is simple, works on D.C. motor, arduino, proximity sensor, ultrasonic sensor. where ultrasonic sensor and proximity sensor helps to detect the fruit and after sensing it the fruit is plucked using the clip and kept in the box. So to begin with arduino when the connections as per the circuit diagram and upload the code to arduino. Once the power to the circuit is turned on, arduino is ready to accept the input from the remote or buttons. It also starts beeping with buzzers when any input is given through PWM signal. Then in the DC motor it turns electricity into motion by providing electromagnetic induction. Use of visual sensors and proximity sensors to detect the presence of nearby objects and for this it don't need any physical contact. Also pincers, claws, any robotic hand or linkage mechanisms can be used to pick out the fruit and cut it off from the stem. And displaying the directions and accepting the provided indicator to move inside the vines will be given through arduino. And at last there will be this auto-offing system which is operated through buttons and buzzers.