Design and implementation of real time pollution free autonomous vehicle for harvesting on VI platform

This paper presents the real time implementation of an autonomous vehicle for harvesting on virtual instrumentation (VI) platform. It also discusses the effective steps which are useful to improve the effective way for pollution free harvesting through solar energy in virtual instrumentation platform. To gain the software flexibility and the interactivity, the LabVIEW graphical programming environment is used. The paper discussed the designing steps for implementing autonomous vehicle fixed with robotic arm which includes cutting tools and digital camera for scanning the crops. This paper also discusses the general approach how the concept of virtual instrumentation can be used in different domains of embedded system like digital image processing and mechatronics. The Digital Image Processing concept here is used so as to scan the image of the crops by using a color camera of 0.3 megapixel at regular interval of time and thereby cutting the crops. To provide more intelligence to the system the concept of obstacle detector (considering TSOP 1738 & IC 555 circuit) is implemented and fixed near the wheels of the robot. The method implemented here is generalize approach which can be adopted towards real time implementation of other applications used for agriculture domain.