Design and Performance of Solar-Powered Surveillance Robot for Agriculture Application

Tresna Dewi; Ronald  Sukwadi; Marsellinus Bachtiar Wahju

doi:10.22219/kinetik.v8i3.1722

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Design and Performance of Solar-Powered Surveillance Robot for Agriculture Application

https://doi.org/10.22219/kinetik.v8i3.1722

Tresna Dewi

Politeknik Negeri Sriwijaya

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0239-1538

Ronald Sukwadi

Universitas Katolik Indonesia Atma Jaya

Marsellinus Bachtiar Wahju

Universitas Katolik Indonesia Atma Jaya

Corresponding Author(s) : Tresna Dewi

tresna_dewi@polsri.ac.id

Kinetik: Game Technology, Information System, Computer Network, Computing, Electronics, and Control, Vol. 8, No. 3, August 2023
Article Published : Aug 31, 2023

Abstract

Agriculture can benefit from robotics technology to overcome the drawback of limited human labor working in this sector. One of the robot applications in agriculture is a surveillance robot to monitor the condition. This paper describes a surveillance robot that is powered by a capacitor bank charged by a mini solar panel. The solar-powered robot is well-suited for deployment in open agricultural areas in Indonesia, where the irradiance is high. This potential is excellent for generating electricity and charging electric vehicles, such as those used in agriculture. The surveillance robot developed and tested in this study has been successfully deployed in an agriculture-like setting with all-terrain contours and the capacity to avoid obstacles. During high irradiance sunny weather, the shortest charging time was 2 hours. Hence, the proposed technology is effective for designing a surveillance robot for agricultural applications.

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Agriculture robots Solar Powered robots Surveillance Robots Solar Energy Renewable Energy

Dewi, T., Sukwadi, R. ., & Wahju, M. B. (2023). Design and Performance of Solar-Powered Surveillance Robot for Agriculture Application . Kinetik: Game Technology, Information System, Computer Network, Computing, Electronics, and Control, 8(3). https://doi.org/10.22219/kinetik.v8i3.1722

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T. Dewi, P. Risma, Y. Oktarina, M.T. Roseno, H.M. Yudha, A. S. Handayani, and Y. Wijanarko, “A Survey on Solar Cell; The Role of Solar Cell in Robotics and Robotic Application in Solar Cell industry,” in Proceeding Forum in Research, Science, and Technology (FIRST), 2016. Retrieved from http://eprints.polsri.ac.id/3576/3/C4.pdf.

T. Dewi, P. Risma, Y. Oktarina, and S. Muslimin, “Visual Servoing Design and Control for Agriculture Robot; a Review,” Proc. 2019 ICECOS, 2-4 Oct. 2018, Pangkal Pinang: Indonesia, 2018, pp. 57-62. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICECOS.2018.8605209

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P. Kumar, and G. Ashok, Design and fabrication of smart seed sowing robot, Materials Today: Proceedings, Vol. 39, Part 1, pp. 354-358, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2020.07.432.

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T. Dewi, Z. Mulya, P. Risma, and Y. Oktarina, “BLOB Analysis of an Automatic Vision Guided System for a Fruit Picking and Placing Robot,” International Journal of Computational Vision and Robotics, Vol. 11, No 3, pp. 315-326, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJCVR.2021.115161.

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M. H. Malik, T. Zhang, H. Li, M. Zhang, S. Shabbir, and A. Saeed, "Mature Tomato Fruit Detection Algorithm Based on improved HSV and Watershed Algorithm," IFAC-PapersOnLine, Vol. 51, No. 17, pp. 431-436, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ifacol.2018.08.183.

L. F. S. Pereira, S. Barbon, N. A. Valous, and D. F. Barbin, Predicting the ripening of papaya fruit with digital imaging and random forests, Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, Vol. 145, pp. 76-82, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compag.2017.12.029.

T. Dewi, C. Anggraini, P. Risma, Y. Oktarina, and Muslikhin, Motion Control Analysis of Two Collaborative Arm Robots in Fruit Packaging System,” SINERGIA Vol. 25, No. 2, pp. 217-226, 2021. http://doi.org/10.22441/sinergi.2021.2.013.

T. Dewi, P. Risma, and Y. Oktarina, “Fruit Sorting Robot based on Color and Size for an Agricultural Product Packaging System,” Bulletin of Electrical Engineering, and Informatics (BEEI), vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 1438-1445, 2020, DOI: 10.11591/eei.v9i4.2353

J. Jhawar, “Orange Sorting by Applying Pattern Recognition on Colour Image,” Procedia Computer Science, vol. 78, pp. 691–697, December 2016. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2016.02.118

J. Azeta, C.A. Bolu, D. Hinvi, A.A. Abioye, H. Boyo, P. Anakhu, P. Onwordi, An Android Based Mobile Robot for Monitoring and Surveillance, Procedia Manufacturing, Vol. 35, pp.1129-1134, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.promfg.2019.06.066

T. Dewi, P. Risma, Y. Oktarina, RD Kusumanto, Motion control analysis of a spherical robot as a surveillance robot, Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Vol. 1167, No. 1, p. 012004, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/1167/1/012004

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