Design and Implementation of Automatic Lawn Cutter

Design and Implementation of Automatic Lawn Cutter
Abstract—
An automatic lawn cutter that will help the user to cut the grass in their lawn with less efforts.
The different sensors are used it will detect and avoid objects and humans while mowing. The
main objective of this automatic lawn cutter is that the user can specify the area that is to be
mown and also the height of grass as per there requirement. This design contains a
microcontroller like ATmega , sensors, LCD Display.solar panel, motors.
INTRODUCTION
Nowadays pollution is a major issue for whole world. Pollution is manmade and can be seen in
own homes. In case Gas powered lawn mowers due to the emission of gases it is responsible for
pollution. Also the cost of fuel is increasing hence it is not efficient. So the Solar powered lawn
cutters are introduced. Solar powered lawn mower can be described as theapplication of solar
energy to power an electric motor which in turn rotates a blade which does the mowing of a
lawn.But the cost of those lawn cutters is high[1]. But our automatic lawn cutter is consisting of
rechargeable battery. This design is alternative for environmentally hazardous gas powered lawn
cutter.hydrogen powered lawn mower has been operated without major interruption during the
past fourteen years. The commercial model was originally running on gasoline and was adapted
to hydrogen by making small adjustments to the carburetor and by installing a hydrogen
reservoir containing solid-state metal hydrides. During the evaluation period the only
maintenance work was changing the lubricating oil of the engine once a year, and reactivating
the metal hydride powder by external heating after an accidental inlet of air into the reservoir[2].
And also it will be the alternative for solar powered automatic lawn cutter because the its cost is
more. So automatic lawn cutter using rechargeable battery is economically helpful for user. By
using this automatic lawn cutter user can the cut the grass of the required area by giving input by
using keypad. Also the height of grass can be specified by adjusting the height of blades. The
main objective of this lawn mower is that the grass in the lawn must be mown with less effort.
Also to cut the grass of particular area as per user requirement.The sensors are the eyes of this
lawn cutter.
The other objective is that the automatic lawn cutter has to differentiate between grass and
concrete while monitoring its surroundings continuously. We wanted an ultrasonic sensor to
detect if the lawn cutter was heading into an object. Safety is the main concern while designing
the lawn cutter. As it has blades we wanted our lawn cutter not to be in operating mode if it was
being held in the air by the user. Knowing that the user would be randomly holding the lawn
cutter we needed a sensor to detect orientation. The accelerometer was hence used in lawn cutter
so that it will not operate when user hold it. An automatic lawn cutter will relieve the consumer
from mowing their own lawns and will reduce both environmental and noise pollution.
LITERATURE REVIEW
For designing of Automatic Lawn Cutter we referred various literature, papers etc.The review of
previous method used given below: In this lawn mower uses an solar based energy source, which
is easier to use, more advantageous comparing to other energy source especially for gas based
source of power .But our lawn cutter is not based on solar because of its cost and may
createsome complexity during working. So we avoided solar powered lawn mower [1] .In this
hydrogen based lawn mower, the advantage of powering a lawn mower by hydrogen rather than
by gasoline is mainly ecological. We not used this for our lawn cutter because it is very old
method and many overcome produced from this type lawn cutter [2].The self- powered design
objective is to come up with a mower that is portable, durable, easy to operate and maintain. It
also aims to design a self-powered mower of electrical source; a cordless electric lawn mower.
The heart of the machine is a battery-powered dc electric motor. It is also useful method for our
lawn mower. It is similar to our lawn cutter using display and keypad[3].The present technology
commonly used for trimming the grass is by using the manually handle device. In this project we
have automated the machine for trimming the grass. The device consists of linear blade which is
operated with the help of the motor the power supply for the motor is by using battery. The
battery can be charge by using powersupply and solar panel. In case of any obstacles in the path
it is sensed by using an IR sensor [4].
Block diagram
Battery LCD
Motor driver M1
AVR
Solar panel
M2
Ultrasonic
sensor Motor
Grass cutter
Hardware components
Microcontroller
LCD
Ultrasonic sensor
Solar panel
Motor driver
Gearmotors
Software used
Embedded C
AVR studio
AVR programmer
CONCLUSION
This lawn mower will meet the challenge of environmental production and low cost of operation
since there is no cost for fueling. A lawn mower has been developed for the use of residences
and establishments that have lawns where tractor driven mowers could not be used. The
machine‟s capacity is adequate for its purpose. The machine has proved to be a possible
replacement for the gasoline powered lawn mowers.
We are developed “Automatic Lawn Cutter” by using keypad and LCD display and forthis we
are using battery hence it works automatically.
REFERENCES
[1] “Design and Development of a Solar Powered Lawn Mower”: International Journal of
Scientific & Engineering Research, Volume 5, Issue 6, June-2014.
[2] “Hydrogen Powered Lawn Mower”. Int. J. Hydrogen Energy 1993; 18, 345-348.

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