Department Publications

Personal and medium scale farming has been showing a downward trend throughout the past few decades. Individuals are demotivated to engage in farming activities, due to lack of time, and the higher efficiency in large-scale farming. However, there is a significant health concern arising from the consumption of these products, as they are grown using artificial fertilizers and contain residues of insecticides and pesticides. Automation can motivate personal and medium scale farming, through cutting down the time requirements for farming and by increasing the farming efficiency. Our solution - Scalable Autonomous Agronomical Smartbot (SAASbot) aims at automating farming activities (planting seeds, watering, fertilizing, weed removal) while providing a scalable robotic platform for personal to medium scale farming. In this paper, design and implementation of the SASSBot and testing and validation of the system …

Voice Controlled Robot (VCR) is a mobile robot whose motions can be controlled by the user by giving specific voice commands. The speech recognition software running on a PC is capable of identifying the 5 voice commands ‘Run’,‘Stop’,‘Left’,’Right’and ‘Back’issued by a particular user. After processing the speech, the necessary motion instructions are given to the mobile platform via a RF link. Following is the system overview. The speech recognition software is speaker dependant. The special feature of the application is the ability of the software to train itself for the above voice commands for a particular user. The graphical user interface running along with the software provides a very convenient method for the users to train. It also provides many other facilities in operating the robot.