  Recent developments in the domain of agricultural robotics have resulted in
development of complex and efficient systems. Most of the land owners in the
South Asian region are low income farmers. The agricultural experience for them
is still a completely manual process. However, the extreme weather conditions,
heat and flooding, often combine to put a lot of stress on these small land
owners and the associated labor. In this paper, we propose a prototype for an
automated power reaper for the wheat crop. This automated vehicle is navigated
using a simple vision based approach employing the low-cost camera and assisted
GPS. The mechanical platform is driven by three motors controlled through an
interface between the proposed vision algorithm and the electrical drive. The
proposed methodology is applied on some real field scenarios to demonstrate the
efficiency of the vision based algorithm.

Robotics;Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition;Computers and Society