Journal of Electronics and Electromagnetic Technology

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A Review Paper on Grass Cutter Device Using Bluetooth

Shekhar Kumar1, Anshika Sharma2, Rishabh Sharma3, Shubham Kesarwani

U.G Scholar1, 3, 4, Assistant Professor2

Department of ECE
MIT Moradabad, India
Corresponding authors’ email id: shk19976552@gmail.com1, anshikasharma.ece@gmail.com2

Abstract
The grass cutter uses a solar based energy source, which is easier to use, more
advantageous compared to other energy source especially for gas based
source of power. But our solar grass cutter is based on solar power because
this energy is a renewable source of energy and it is easy to work. So we made
solar powered grass cutter.

Keywords: Solar Power, Battery, Lawn Mower, DC Motor, Servomotor,

Sprinkle.

I. INTRODUCTION The self- powered objective is to come up

In today's climate of growing energy needs with a cutter that is portable, durable, easy to
and increasing environmental concern, operate and maintain. It also aims to design
alternatives to the use of non-renewable and a self- powered cutter of electrical source; a
polluting fossil fuels have to be investigated. cordless electric grass mower. The heart of
One such energy is solar energy. In this the machine is a battery
solar based grass cutter, the advantage of powered DC electric motor. It is also useful
powering a grass cutter by solar rather than method for our grass cutter.
by gasoline is mainly ecological. We
manufactured this grass cutter because it is The present technology commonly used for
very easy method and many problems are trimming the grass is by using the manually
overcome by this type of grass cutter. handle device. In this project we have

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automated the machine for trimming the conditions. They have used following
grass. The device consists of blade which is components for preparing grass cutter.
operated with the help of the motor the If any obstacle comes in front of grass cutter
power supply for the motor is by using then it sense by IR sensor and gives signal to
battery. The battery can be charge the microcontroller to change the direction
by using power supply and solar panel. or stop the grass cutter until the obstacle is
removed. The main objective of this paper is
II. Literature Review to move the grass cutter is different
In this paper they have prepared manually directions to prepare various designs as per
handle device which is capable to cut the requirements. By using link mechanism the
grass. This device consists of linear blades height of the cut can be adjusted. The
and it does not affected by climatic unskilled labor can easily operate this
device.

Table No. 1- Component of Solar Grass Cutter

Sr. No. Item Quantity

1. DC Motor 2

2. DC Motor 1

3. Wheel 4

4. Battery 1

5. Solar panel 1

6. IR sensor 1

7. Blade 3

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III. OBJECTIVES IV. PROPOSED DIAGRAM AND

Automated solar grass cutter is a fully DESCRIPTION
automated grass cutting robotic vehicle
powered by solar energy that also avoids
obstacles and is capable of fully automated
grass cutting, without the need of any human
interaction. The system uses 12V batteries to
power the vehicle movement motors as well
as the grass cutter motor. We also use a solar
panel to charge the battery so that there is no
Fig. 1: Circuit Diagram Proposed
need of charging it externally. The grass
cutter and vehicle motors are interfaced to
Solar Energy: Solar energy is radiant light
an 8051 family microcontroller that controls
and heat from the sun harnessed using a
the working of all the motors.
range of ever-evolving technologies such as
solar heating, solar photo voltaic, solar
It is also interfaced to an IR sensor for
thermal energy, solar architecture and
object detection. The microcontroller moves
artificial photosynthesis. Solar energy is
the vehicle motors in forward direction in
very large, inexhaustible source of energy.
case no obstacle is detected. On obstacle
The power from the sun interrupted by earth
detection, IR sensor monitors it and the
is approximately 1.8/10MW, which are
microcontroller thus stops the grass cuter
many thousands of times larger than the
motor so as to avoid any damage to the
present consumption rate on the earth of all
object/human/animal. Microcontroller then
energy sources.
turns the robotic vehicle off until it gets
clear of the object and then moves the grass
Servomotor: A servomotor is a rotary
cutter in forward direction again.
actuator or linear actuator that allows for
precise control of angular or linear position,
velocity and acceleration.

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It consists of a suitable motor coupled to a L293D IC: L293D is a dual H-bridge motor
sensor for position feedback. driver integrated circuit (IC).

It also requires a relatively sophisticated Motor drivers act as current amplifiers since
controller, often a dedicated module they take a low-current control signal and
designed specifically for use with provide a higher-current signal.
servomotors.
This higher current signal is used to drive
Servomotors are not a specific class of the motors.
motor although the term servomotor is often
used to refer to a motor suitable for use in a L293D contains two inbuilt H-bridge driver
closed-loop control system. circuits. In its common mode of operation,
two DC motors can be driven
Servomotors are used in applications such as simultaneously, both in forward and reverse
robotics, CNC machinery or automated direction.
manufacturing.

Block Diagram

Fig. 2: Bock diagram of solar grass cutter

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Hardware Specification The vehicle is integrated with a

microcontroller of AVR family that is used
 Atmega 328 Microcontroller
to operate the vehicle as per android
 DC Motor
commands.
 Ultrasonic Sensor

 5V power supply The controlling device may be any android

based Smartphone/tab etc. having an android
 Servomotor
OS. The android controlling system provides
 Relay a good interactive GUI that makes it easy for
 Voltage regulator the user to control the vehicle. The
transmitter uses an android application
 Bluetooth device
required for transmitting the data. The
 Motor Driver IC
receiver end reads these commands and
 Battery interprets them into controlling the robotic
vehicle. The android device sends
commands to move the vehicle in forward,
Software Specifications
backward, right and left directions.
 MC Programming
Language Embedded C
After receiving the commands, the
microcontroller then operates the motors I
V. WORKING OF SOLAR POWERED order to move the vehicle in four directions.
GRASS CUTTER: The communication between android device
Our project proposes a robotic vehicle that and receiver is sent as serial communication
can be handled remotely through an android data. The microcontroller program is
based device. The control device is designed to move the motor s through a
integrated with a Bluetooth device that motor driver IC as per the commands sent
allows capturing and reading the commands. by android device.
The robotic vehicle may then be operated as
desired as commanded through the android
application.

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Fig.3: Working Model

VII. ADVANTAGES IX. LIMITATION

1) Compact size and portable.  Large time required to remove the
2) Easy to move from one place to grass.
another place  Manually operated.
3) Operating principle is simple.  Difficult to operate in rainy seasons.
4) Non-skilled person also operate this
machine FUTURE SCOPE
Size can be reduced to make it compact.
VIII. DISADVANTAGES Efficiency can be improved by increasing
1) The eventually disposal of batteries the battery capacity.
is problematic.
More sensors can be incorporated for
2) The motors in cordless cutter lend to accurate results and improved automation.
be less powerful than gasoline Programming can be enhanced to make the
motors of the same total weight. device perform different operations.

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CONCLUSION components and this can be operated by

It consumes non-renewable sources of using solar energy. This will give much less
energy so total energy received from sun far physical exertion to the people and can be
exceeds our energy demand. It meant to be easily handled. This system has the facility
an alternate green option to the popular and of charging the batteries while the solar
environment hazardous gas powered lawn powered grass cutter is in motion. So it is
mower and reduces human effort. much more suitable for grass cutting also.
The same thing can be operated in night
Non skilled person also handle it easily. By time also, as there is a facility to charge
using simple switches or by predetermine these batteries in day light.
programming it can be easily handle and
control within less time. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
We would like to express my deeper sense
It is highly efficient and accurate because it of gratitude to Ms. Anshika Sharma
detects the obstacle and changes the (Assistant Prof. E&C Dept.), M.I.T.
direction or stop functioning as per the Moradabad for inspiring and giving me all
instruction given. Therefore equipment the valuable suggestion from time to time.
should be protected from damage and We owe a debt of gratitude to my father and
reduces risk on human. mother for their consistent support, sacrifice,
and meaningful suggestion given to me at
XII. RESULT different stages of this work. Last but not the
Our project entitled “Smart Solar Grass least we are thankful to the Almighty who
cutter with Lawn Coverage” is successfully gave me the strength and health for
completed and the results obtained are completing my paper.
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