Automation in Agriculture detailed syllabus for Agriculture Engineering (Agri) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the Agri students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.
For Agriculture Engineering 6th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit Agri 6th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Professional Elective-IV scheme and its subjects refer to Agri Professional Elective-IV syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of automation in agriculture is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
INTRODUCTION Fundamental of electronics Passive devices -semiconductor devices – transistors – diode circuits -amplifier circuits. Integrated circuits and operational amplifier – logic gates – flip flop – counters digital to analog – analog to digital converters- microprocessor.
Unit II
PRECISION FARMING Precision farming -Ground based sensors, Remote sensing, GPS, GIS and mapping software, Yield mapping systems, Crop production modelling.
Unit III
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Unit IV
AUTOMATION USING IoT Use of different sensors – Temperature and humidity sensor – Soil Moisture Sensor – Water Level Depth Detector, Raspberry Pi Arduino UNO
Unit V
AUTOMATION OF AGRICULTURE OPERATION Automation of agricultural operations using IoT based systems – Smart Irrigation SystemAutomation in Greenhouse – Drones. Case Study- Automation of greenhouse/farm operations.
Text Books:
- Zhang, Q. and Pierce, F.J. eds., 2013. Agricultural automation: fundamentals and practices. CRC Press.
- Choudhury, A., Biswas, A., Singh, T.P. and Ghosh, S.K. eds., 2022. Smart Agriculture Automation Using Advanced Technologies: Data Analytics and Machine Learning, Cloud Architecture, Automation and IoT.
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Course Outcomes:
- Exemplify the working operations of electronic devices and processors
- Interpret the necessity of sensor requirements for precision farming practices
- Understand the basics of robotics and their applications in agriculture
- Apply the IOT concepts in cropping practices
- Interpolate the concept of automation in governing the agricultural systems
For detailed syllabus of all the other subjects of Agriculture Engineering 6th Sem, visit Agri 6th Sem subject syllabuses for 2021 regulation.
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