Prototype Design of Automatic Anchovy Drying Robot Using Arduino ATmega 2560

Abstract

Indonesia has great marine resource potentials due to its geographical location. Among other resources, anchovy becomes the prior Indonesia's marine commodities greatly consumed by domestic residents and demanded by many exporters. Unfortunately, the production process of dried anchovy seemingly encounters several problems, especially in the drying process. Since the drying process uses sunlight, it comes into problems with a cloudy weather or rain. Less intensity of sunlight might make the drying process result not perfect dried anchovy. Moreover, current manual monitoring technique remains ineffective drying process. Thus, this study aims to design a prototype of automatic anchovy drying robot using Arduino ATmega 2560 microcontroller to address the problems. This study considers the uses of Arduino ATmega 2560 as a robot controller, DC motor as a driving system, and LDR and rain sensors as automatic modules. LDR sensors are used as a robot roof drive or anchovy drying container to open automatically when sunlight is detected. In addition, rain sensor serves to close the robot roof when it detects rains and the robot turns into its initial position. This robot is further expected to be able to work automatically and optimally in helping anchovy drying process.