Automatic Grass Cutting Machine

TATYASAHEB KORE INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING AND

TECHNOLOGY, WARANANAGAR
DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

A PROJECT SYNOPSIS REPORT

ON

“AUTOMATIC GRASS CUTTING MACHINE”

Submitted by
GROUP NO: BB-07
Name of Student Roll no.
Mr. SHUBHAM MATKAR 133
Mr. AMOL SUTAR 136
Mr. PRATHAMESH KURANE 123
Mr. PRADYUMN LOHAR 124
Mr. ARBAJ MULLANI 140
Students of Final Year Mechanical Engineering.
Under the Guidance Of

Mr. A. R. Koli
Assistant Professor,
Department of Mechanical Engineering

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ABSTRACT

This project describes the solar powered automated grass cutter machine
which makes the grass cutter machine running through solar energy. The
proposed system design eliminate the human efforts in grass cutting field such
as lawn. The solar grass cutting machine is a robotic vehicle powered by solar
energy that also avoids obstacles and is capable of automated and manual grass
cutting. The system uses 12 volt battery to power the vehicle movement motor
as well as the grass cutter motor. A solar panel is used to charge the battery so
that there is no need of charging it externally. The movement of machine is
totally controlled by automatic mode and manual mode. ‘Bluetooth controller’
play store application runs this machine movement and direction through an
android application. The main target of this machine is to reduce human efforts.

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CHAPTER 01: INTRODUCTION

When a grass cutter is being moved by human effort and using of fossil
fuels is getting outdated method in these days, while people are getting aware
about the solar energy. Cutting grass cannot be easily accomplished by elder,
younger. Grass cutter moving with engine creates noise pollution due to loud
engine and local air pollution due to the combustion in the engine also a motor
power engine requires a periodic maintenance such as changing the engine oil,
even though electric solar grass cutter are friendly to environment.

The automation is useful at various stages of human life. The beautiful

evenly cut grass increases the beauteousness of any hotel, house, park, meeting
hall etc. Hence uniform grass cutting is important to maintain the prestige of
any house or hotel. The manual grass cutting is possible using human being but
it usually consumes time and energy of human being. Also the manual grass
cutting is inefficient and many time results in non-uniform structure of grass.
Hence to avoid all these issues it is better to use automated grass cutting
machine which can be operated through android phone. This research
implements the android operated grass cutting machine. This system establishes
connection with android phone using Bluetooth. This machines motion includes
following motions forward, backward, left turn, right turn and grass cutter
on/off. All these motions are controlled by android application. This machine is
operated by using 12V battery. To charge this battery solar panel is connected
above the battery. Many researchers have proposed a similar design of solar
based grass cutting machine.

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CHAPTER 02: LITRTURE REVIEW

[1] ‘Vicky Jain, Sagar Patil, Prashant Bagane, Prof. Mrs. S. S. Patil’ Solar
Based Wireless Grass Cutter, International Journal of Science Technology and
Engineering, Vol. 2, 2016, 576-580.

They have prepared wireless grass cutter. They have used solar panel so it
is not required to charge battery externally and battery is continuously charged
at constant voltage when grass cutter is in working. The battery is getting
charged by using day light and we can use it as per our convenience. Because of
two DC motor both forward and backward motion of grass cutter can
simultaneously possible.

[2] ‘Ashish Kumar Chaudhari, Yuvraj Sahu, Prabhat Kumar Dwivedi, Harsh
Jain ‘Reference Book:-Experimental Study of Solar Power Grass Cutter Robot, ,
International Journal of Advance Research and Innovative Ideas in Education,
Vol. 2, 2016, 68-73.

In this paper author explained that solar plate which is placed above the
grass cutter generates solar energy and use this energy for working the grass
cutter. Also, using driver circuit for controlling speed of motor as per the
requirement. For preventing battery from overcharging and over discharging
regulator is placed into the system and it should be placed in series. They have
provided LCD display unit which displays voltage generated during solar rays
trapping. Due to seasonal conditions if battery is not charged they can provide
the power bank to charge the battery instantly.

[3] ‘Praful Ulhe, Manish D. Inwate, D.Wankhede, Krushnkumar S. Dhakte’

Modification of Solar Grass Cutting Machine, International Journal for
Innovative Research in Science & Technology, Vol. 2, 2016, 711-714

In this paper they have prepared manually operated grass cutter with
spiral roller blades due to spiral blades increases the efficiency of cutting. For
adjusting the height reel cutter is component placed on grass cutter. The battery
can be charged during working conditions and it also having AC charging. For
collection of cut grass a box is placed over grass cutter so the cut grass put
outside the lawn. It is having light in weight and compact in design.

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CHAPTER 03: PROBLEM STATEMENT

We usually see the grass cutter machine was used at the housing park and
residence bungalow the commercial are like industry area, we usually see the
manually and conventional method was used grass cutter machine was used the
fuel as source of power. The cost of fuels which are being used for cutters are
also increasing. Thus our aim is to study alternative source of power like solar
energy. In addition to this modification will be done to the blade to use different
material and nonhazardous to the operator. Thus providing user friendly and
pollution free lawn mowers.

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CHAPTER 04: OBJECTIVE

The main objective of the project is to make solar operated grass cutter
machine which is a fully automated grass cutting machine. Powered by solar
energy that also avoids obstacles and is capable of fully automated grass cutting
without the need for human intervention. The brain of the bot is the ARDUINO
UNO which decides the various actions. The L293D9 motor driver executes
these orders by changing the power and polarity of the motors. The movement
motors runs at 60-80 rpm and the blade motor runs at 1000 rpm. The ground
clearance of the bot is 2.5 inches, aslo adjustable. The solar panel is 8x4 inches
in dimension. The Bluetooth module continuously contacts to the smartphone
and also we can control the machine via smartphone

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CHAPTER 05: BLOCK DIAGRAM

As shown in above figure, Solar Panel is connected to battery. Battery

provides 12 V DC supply to the system which can be minimized to 5V DC
voltage using voltage regulator. The Arduino is operated with 5V DC voltage.
The LCD module, Bluetooth module, DC motors, buzzer are connected with
output pins of ATmega328P microcontroller.

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CHAPTER 06: METHODOLOGY

 Planning
 Survey
 Problem identification
 Proper solution
 Drafting
 Designing
 Fabrication
 Test drive
 Fault detection
 solution

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CHAPTER 07: FLOW CHART

As shown in figure above, initially the 12 V battery supply needed to

start. This supply will be converted into 5V DC supply using voltage regulator.
This 5V supply will be provided to microcontroller. The Bluetooth module
needed to be started and connected to the android smart phone. Once the
connection is established between the smart phone and the system, user can
move this system in vertical and horizontal direction using android application
in smart phone. User will start the grass cutter to cut the grass of desired
location. After completing grass cutting task, user will switch OFF the grass
cutter using android smart phone. Then the main system can be switched OFF
by disconnecting the 12V battery supply to the system.

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CHAPTER 08: FACILITIES AVAILABLE

 Workshop with all proper equipment like welding machine, cutting

machine, lathe machine, drilling machine, etc.
 Internet labs
 Library with get the required books.
 Mobile: for control the unit

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CHAPTER 09: ADVANTAGES & DISADVANTAGES

 ADVANTAGES

a) Portable structure with Compact size

b) Simple operation
c) Less cost
d) Uniform grass cutting is possible
e) Reduces human efforts

 DISADVANTAGES

a) Maintenance required as we want it functions safely.

b) This system cannot be operated in presence of rain

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CHAPTER 10: CONLUSION

This research shows the implementation of smart phone operated grass

cutter. This grass cutter can be operated using android smart phone within a 10
meter range. The user can perform horizontal and vertical movement of grass
cutter using android application in smart phone. This system uses 12V 7.5AH
lead acid battery. This battery can be charge by solar energy. To charge this
battery the 12V, 10Watt solar panel is connected with this system. This system
is cheaper, rugged and durable. With the use of this system human efforts for
grass cutting are highly minimized. Also, manual grass cutting can create non-
uniform grass size. But with the use of this system the grass cutting is uniform,
and one can use this system to cut the grass of any playground.

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CHAPTER 11: REFERENCES

[1] US RE 8560, Passmore, Everett G., "Improvement in Lawn Mowers",

published 23 February 1869.

[2] Ernest L. Hall. A Survey of Robot Lawn Mowers, Available from: Ernest L.
Hall Retrieved on: 06 October 2015.

[3] Technical Solutions, J. Hammond and R. Rafaels, “Build the Lawn Ranger,”
Radio Electronics, June 1990, pp. 31-49.

[4] Robert Zondlo, U.S. Patent 5,461,292, Remote controlled guidance system
for working vehicle, October 24, 1995.

[5] Andre Colens, U.S. Patent 5,444,965, Continuous and autonomous mowing
system August 29, 1995.

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