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Automatic Solar Grass cutter

KAVITHA M JYOTHI R PRIYADARSHINI K
Department of EEE Department of EEE Department of EEE
GSSSIETW, Mysore GSSSIETW, Mysore GSSSIETW, Mysore
kavithamalaganayaka@gmai [email protected] [email protected]
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ABSTRACT of the area to be trimmed and in some cases to locate a

Presently, manually handled device is commonly used for recharging dock. Robotic mowers are capable of maintaining
cutting the grass over the field which creates pollution and up to 20,000 m 2 (220,000 sqft) of grass. [2] Automated solar
loss of energy. The wireless grass cutter system puts forth grass cutter are increasingly sophisticated, are self-docking
an automated lawn mower mechanism. This will reduce and some contain rain sensors if necessary, nearly eliminating
the effort required for cutting grass in the lawns and solar human interaction. Robotic lawn mowers represented the
power used will help to contribute in lowering pollution. second largest category of domestic robots used by the end of
The robotic vehicle is equipped with a grass cutter blade 200Possibly the first commercial robotic lawn mower was the
that allows for grass cutting at high RPM. The system has Mow Bot, introduced and patented in 1969 and already
a smart functionality that allows it to cover the complete showing many features of today's most popular products. In
area of a lawn or garden by detecting corners using 2012, the growth of robotic lawn mower sales was 15 times
ultrasonic sensor and moving in a raster manner in order that of the traditional styles. With the emergence of smart
to cover the entire area. This efficient system uses an phones some robotic mowers have integrated features within
Arduino Mega microcontroller in order to achieve this custom apps to adjust settings or scheduled mowing times and
functionality. The Arduino will act as the brain of the frequency, as well as manually control the mower with a
project which will send commands to the grass cutter. It digital joystick
also controls the movement of motors which help for the .
movement of the cutter. 2. LITERATURE SURVEY
Keywords • Srishti Jain, Amar Khalore and Shashikant
Arduino Mega, DC Motor, LM2596 ADJ, Grass Cutter Patil(December 2015):To detect the obstacles,
and Solar Energy they used IR sensors which has 1m 555 IC. There
are two sensors, one on each side. This is because in
1. INTRODUCTION case the obstacle is on the left then it will move in
In the time where technology is merging with environmental right direction and if the right sensor detects the
awareness, consumers are looking for ways to contribute to obstacle then it goes towards the left. Here they
the relief of their own carbon footprints. Pollution is manmade used a 12v 310mA solar panel in their project.
and can be seen in our own daily lives, more specifically in There are 24 solar cells on the solar panel, each
our own homes.In case gas powered lawn movers due to contributing to 0.5v each.
emission of gases it is responsible for pollution. Also the cost • Ms. Rutuja A. Yadav, Ms. Nayana V. Chavan,
of fuel is increasing hence it is not efficient. So the solar Ms. Monika B. Patil, Prof. V .A. Mane
powered grass cutter is introduced. Solar powered grass cutter (February 2017): The system is switched to
can be described as the application of solar energy to power automatic mode in which the robot’s infrared
an electric motor which in rotates a blades which does the sensors make a comparison between, cut and uncut
moving on lawn. Solar energy is the renewable energy. It uses grass. The mower continues this process until it
the photovoltaic panel to generate the energy needed to power completes the job. The system uses 12v batteries to
the mover. [1]The first lawn mower was invented by Edwin power the vehicle movement motors as well as the
Budding in 1830 in Thrupp, just outside Stroud, in grass cutter motor. They also use a solar panel to
Gloucestershire, England. Budding's mower was designed charge the battery so that there is no need of
charging it externally. The grass cutter and vehicle
primarily to cut the grass on sports grounds and extensive
motors are interfaced to an 8051 family
gardens, as a superior alternative to the scythe, and was
microcontroller that controls the working of all the
granted a British patent on August 31, 1830. [1]in 1995, the motors. It is also interfaced to an ultrasonic sensor
first fully solar powered robotic mower became available. A for object detection.
robotic lawn mower is an autonomous robot used to cut • Bidgar Pravin Dilip, Nikhil Bapu Pagar, Vickey
lawn grass. A typical robotic lawn mower requires the user to S. Ugale, Sandip Wani, Prof. Sharmila M. (April
set up a border wire around the lawn that defines the area to 2017) :This paper will analyze the operation and
be mowed. The robot uses this wire to locate the boundary working principle of the Automatic Grass Cutter.

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The other objective is that the automatic lawn cutter 4.1 COMPONENT OF ATTACHMENT: The main
has to differentiate between grass and concrete components of the solar powered grass cutter are, 1. Solar
while monitoring its surroundings continuously. panels 2. Batteries 3. DC motor 4. Motor driver 5. Mechanism
They wanted an ultrasonic sensor to sense it the used 6. Circuitry
lawn cutter was heading into an object. Safety is the
main concern while designing the lawn cutter.
Ms. Bhagyashri R. Patil, Mr. Sagar S. Patilg
(January-June 2017):There are two main
components such as transmitter and receiver.
Transmitter continuously transmits the rays if any
obstacle come in front of grass cutter then the rays
are reflected back towards the receiver. The receiver
receives the signal in the serial form from encoder
but microcontroller requires parallel data for Figure 2.Solar Panel
communication so receiver sends data to decoder to
convert data in the parallel form and then it is
passed to microcontroller.
• Pankaj Malviya (January-June 2017):Author
prepared manually handle device. The battery can
be charged by using solar panel as well as external
power supply and DC motor which is controllable is
used for changing the direction of grass cutter as per
need are used. The most modern regulator is used
for preventing overcharging and discharging of
battery which saves span of battery. Due to
industrialization more electricity is required for
various industrial applications and electrical gadgets
so solar energy is best alternative for electricity. Figure 3.Gear DC motor
Solar panel, battery, DC motor, solar charger these
components are used for fabrication of grass cutter.
They have used less number of moving components
so there is less maintenance. This grass cutter will
give much more physical exercise to operator and it
will easily handle.

3. PROPOSED SYSTEM

Figure 4.Motor Driver

Figure 5.Batteries

Figure 1: Block diagram of Automatic Solar Grass Cutter 4.2 WORKING OF SOLAR POWERED GRASS CUTTER:
1. Coming to the working of solar powered grass cutter, it has
4. METHODOLOGY panels mounted in a particular arrangement at an angle of 45
The methodology for this project is similar to the prototype
degrees in such a way that it can receive solar radiation with
analysis process. In this project we are fabricating a prototype
of the solar powered grass cutter. The methodologies of these high intensity easily from the sun. 2. These solar panels
attachments are explained in few sub- headings. convert solar energy into electrical energy as studied earlier.
1.Components of attachment 2. Working of solar grass cutter Now this electrical energy is stored in batteries by using a
solar charger. 3. The main function of the solar charger is to
increase the current from the panels while batteries are

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charging, it also disconnects the solar panels from the 5. RESULTS

batteries when they are fully charged and also connects to the
panels when the charging in batteries is low. 4. The motor is
connected to the batteries through connecting wires .Between
these a two motor driver is provided. It starts and stops the
working of the motor. 5.From this motor, the power transmits
to the mechanism and this makes the blade to rotate with high
speed and this makes to cut the grass

Figure7.Complete view of the robot

Figure8. Top view of the robot

6. CONCULSION
Our project entitled Manufacturing of solar powered
Figure6: Algorithm and Flow chart grass cutter is successfully completed and the
results obtained are satisfactory. It will be easier for
the people who are going to take the project for the
1) Step 1: Start further modifications. This project is more suitable
2) Step 2: Initialize Arduino. for a common man as it is having much more
3) Step 3: Connect the sensors. advantages i.e., no fuel cost, no pollution and no
4) Step 4: Check for sensor input. fuel residue, less wear and tear because of less
5) Step 5: If there is an obstacle the cutter will take a u turn number of moving components and this can be
until there is no obstacle. operated by using solar energy. This will give much
6) Step 6: Else continue mowing. more physical exercise to the people and can be
7) Step 7: If cutter is above the ground then stop. easily handled. This system is having facility of
8) Step 8: Else continue. charging the batteries while the solar powered grass
9) Step 9: If cutting done then stop. cutter is in motion. So it is much more suitable for
10) Step 10: Else start again. grass cutting also. The same thing can be operated
11) Step 11: End in night time also, as there is a facility to charge
these batteries in day light. The mechanism which
we used ie scotch yoke mechanism does not given
excepted efficiency. This efficiency can be

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increased by using some other mechanism. and

speed of motor is reduce because we have used
heavy material and this material can be replaced by
using light weight material .and design of blades
should be done based on types of grass is used to
cut. The project which we have done surly reaches
the average families because the grass can be
trimmed with minimum cost and with minimum
time Finally this project may give an inspiration to
the people who can modify and can obtain better
results.

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