Multifunctional Robot at low cost for small farms

• Main Authors: Alan Vinícius de Araújo Batista, Daniel Albiero, Thales Vinícius de Araújo Viana, Leonardo de Almeida Monteiro, Carlos Alessandro Chioderoli, Icaro Rafael Soares de Sousa, Benito Moreira Azevedo
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade Federal de Santa Maria
• Series: Ciência Rural
• Subjects: robótica na agricultura; irrigação; robô cartesiano.
• Online Access: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-84782017000700354&lng=en&tlng=en

ABSTRACT: In this study was developed a three-dimensional robotic device, equipped with a system of actuators, sensors, and controllers to do the individual irrigation of plants in low-cost greenhouses for family farming. After the development were carried out the data collection in the field. In the data analyzing, reported that there was no statistical difference between means for manual irrigation and robotics in the development of agronomic variables of stem height, stem diameter and number of leaves, concluding that the robotic irrigation promoted a lower coefficient of variation and a lower standard deviation in the samples.