Design and Development of a Farmer Friendly All-Terrain Guided Vehicle

Abstract

Farming is a labour intensive occupation and there is heavy shortage of agricultural labours due to rapid urbanization. In India agriculture contributes about 15% of the gross domestic product and there is need for mechanizing the agricultural activities to meet the raising demand for food and labour shortage. In this regard, a guided all-terrain vehicle will be designed and developed in this study to help the farm labour in his regular agricultural activities. The all-terrain vehicle has capability to traverse through rough terrains and it will be IoT(Internet of Things) enabled so that it can communicate with the various subsystems in the cloud and can be also monitored and controlled remotely. The vehicle will be guided and controlled by human through a proper interface. It will be designed with farming specific accessories hence it would reduce human efforts during his farming activities. Thus the proposed vehicle will act as farmer's friend in assisting him to perform his tasks and thereby increasing his productivity.