Smart Solar Grass Cutter

Smart Solar Grass Cutter: The smart grass cutter system puts forth a completely automated lawn mover mechanism. The robotic vehicle is equipped with a grass cutter blade that allows for grass cutting at high RPM. The system has a smart functionality that allows it to cover t

Project Title

Smart Solar Grass Cutter

Project Area of Specialization

Artificial Intelligence

Project Summary

Smart Solar Grass Cutter:

The smart grass cutter system puts forth a completely automated lawn mover mechanism. The robotic vehicle is equipped with a grass cutter blade that allows for grass cutting at high RPM. The system has a smart functionality that allows it to cover the complete area of a lawn or garden by detecting hurdles using ultrasonic sensor.

 This efficient system uses a microcontroller based circuit in order to achieve this functionality. It is a battery operated system. Also the system uses a solar panel to demonstrate the charging of battery. The microcontroller operates the vehicle movement dc motors as well as the grass cutter at the same time as monitoring the ultrasonic sensors. 

The microcontroller smartly operates the dc motors using the motor driver to achieve desired movement based on ultrasonic and IR sensors inputs.

 Thus this system allows for fully automated grass cutting system without the need for any human intervention.

Project Objectives

Objectives:

•   To understand the concepts and working of     solar power & Arduino.
•   To design a grass cutter system to reduce         human efforts.
•  To produce a prototype of smart solar Grass   cutter which can be more efficient to  reduce     energy  consumption  &   to  efficiently  utilize  renewable  sources  of energy.

Project Implementation Method

Implementation Method:

This section will cover the process involved in the making of the “Smart solar grass cutter”. The process involved in the making of project is very important so that all the process will be done smooth without any difficulties. The processes involved are under changes due to unexpected changes or complications.

The flow development of the project is divided into three parts, which are study about solar energy and  basic  lawn  mower,  hardware and  coding of  the  project.  Hardware  part  of  the project is to make connections and joint all the components to make prototype.

In this electricity is produced when sunlight falls on the solar cells causing the electrons moving around them. The solar panel is kept at an angle perpendicular to sun rays such that maximum rays falls on the panel, energy receiving from sun used to produce electricity and stored in a battery.

Electrical  energy  of  the  battery  is  converted  to  mechanical  energy  through  set  of  blades designed  to  achieve  cutting.  When  the  power  is  switch  on,  the  electrical  energy from  the battery powers motor which in turn actuates the blades.

Finally software part is the Arduino software in compiling and uploading the program code in the Arduino Uno board, using USB Cable . The Arduino operates the vehicle movement dc motors as well as the grass cutter at the same time as monitoring the ultrasonic sensors. The arduino smartly operates the dc motors using  motor driver IC to achieve desired movement based on ultrasonic ans IR inputs.

Benefits of the Project

Benefits:

Automated Solar Grass Cutter is a fully automated grass cutting robotic vehicle powered by solar energy that also avoids obstacles and is capable of cutting grass without the need of any human interaction.So it is more efficient to use a solar power grass cutter which will be smart and which consumes less power.

Technical Details of Final Deliverable

• A solar grass cutter is a machine that uses sliding blades to cut a lawn at an even length.
• Power consumption becmes essential for future.
• The solar grass cutter consists of the photovoltaic cell for the efficiency power from solar panel.
• The converter helps to store the DC voltage in a battery.
• The working principle of solar grass cutter is, it has panels mounted in a particular arrangement in such a way that it can receive solar radiation with high intensity easily from the sun.This electrical energy is stored in batteries by using a solar charger.
• Ultrasonic sensor is fixed in front of vehicle to detect hurdles.
• IR sensor is fixed near cutter to detect the length of grass.
• The prototype automatically operates using inputs from IR and Ultrasonic sensors.

Final Deliverable of the Project

Hardware System

Type of Industry

Others

Technologies

Artificial Intelligence(AI)

Sustainable Development Goals

Responsible Consumption and Production, Climate Action

Required Resources

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