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Our group broadly works on design, prototyping and testing of agricultural machines/equipments/implements employed in field preparation, sowing, transplanting, weeding, spraying, harvesting and threshing in cultivation of various crops. We consider the requirement, functionality and strength of the machine in designing; availability of materials and ease of manufacturability in prototyping; and performance evaluation in testing of the designed and developed machines.
We focus on designing the tractor and its sub-systems, power tillers and Internal Combustion engines as conventional energy as well as Solar, Wind, Biomass and Bio-energy as alternative energy resources for power the agricultural machines. We also apply computers, electronics and robotics in agricultural machines to enhance the productivity and timely operation. Our designs include application of advanced computational and optimization techniques such as artificial intelligence and evolutionary algorithms. Even we consider the engineering factors of Human-Machine-Interaction to reduce the fatigue and to increase the productivity of machine operators.
Prediction of optimized pretreatment process parameters for biodiesel production using ANN and GA, Predicting the draught requirement of tillage implements in sandy clay loam soil using an artificial neural networks, Improved Radial Basis Function neural networks on structural optimization, damage and crack identification of beam structure, Development of a visual basic program for design of farm implements, Development of a vegetable transplanter with robotic arm for handling paper pot seedlings, Development of a solar energy operated tea shoot harvester, Performance evaluation of emulsified diesel fueled engine, Optimization of operating parameters of seed planters with maximum cell fill using ANN-PSO technique, CFD simulation of Savonius-Davis wind turbine for maximum power extraction, Three Dimensional Kinematic analysis of Three Point Hitch System and Steering System of a Tractor, Recognition of matured tomatoes in field using machine vision technique are some of our team research studies.
Evaluation of a Laboratory-based Prototype of a Comb-type Picking Mechanism for Chili Pepper Harvester by Gupta C., Tewari V.K., Machavaram R. Journal of Biosystems Engineering 47 69-78 (2022)
Economic feasibility study of aerators in aquaculture using life cycle costing (LCC) approach by Roy S.M., Machavaram R., Moulick S., Mukherjee C.K. Journal of Environmental Management 302 - (2022)
Applications of gravity aeration system in aquaculture a systematic review by Roy S.M., Tanveer M., Machavaram R. Aquaculture International - (2022)
An image processing approach for measurement of chili plant height and width under field conditions by Gupta C., Tewari V.K., Machavaram R., Shrivastava P. Journal of the Saudi Society of Agricultural Sciences 21 171-179 (2022)
Diversified aeration facilities for effective aquaculture systems a comprehensive review by Roy S.M., Jayraj P., Machavaram R., Pareek C.M., Mal B.C. Aquaculture International 29 1181-1217 (2021)
Optimizing the aeration performance of a perforated pooled circular stepped cascade aerator using hybrid ANN-PSO technique by Roy S.M., Pareek C.M., Machavaram R., Mukherjee C.K. Information Processing in Agriculture - (2021)
Optimizing the seed-cell filling performance of an inclined plate seed metering device using integrated ANN-PSO approach by Pareek C. M., Tewari V. K., Machavaram R. , B. N. Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture 5 1-12 (2021)
Injection molding process optimization of a bi-aspheric lens using hybrid artificial neural networks (ANNs) and particle swarm optimization (PSO) by Bensingh R., Machavaram R. , Boopathy S. , Jebaraj C. Measurement 134 359-374 (2019)
Multi-Objective Design Optimization of a Three Phase Squirrel Cage Induction Motor for Electric Propulsion System using Genetic Algorithm by Gupta A., Machavaram R. , Kshatriya T. , Ranjan S. IEEE International Conference on Smart Technologies for Power, Energy and Control (STPEC) 2020 1-6 (2020)
Need of Automation in Paddy Nurseries for Raising Paddy Seedlings in India: a Review by Choudhary V., Machavaram R. Journal of Biosystems Engineering 1-14 (2022)
PFDC Project The Director of Horticulture Department of Food Processing Industries and Horticulture
Centre of Excellence for Digital Farming Solutions for Enhancing Productivity by Robots, Drones and AGVs National Agricultural Higher Education Project (NAHEP)
CRP on Engineering Interventions in Precision Farming and Micro Irrigation Systems (PF & MIS) ICAR
Farm Machinery Testing Centre (FMTC) Ministry of Agriculture and Farming Welfare, Department of Agriculture, Cooperation and Farmers Welfare, Govt. of India
Testing of Farm Implements under Laboratory and Field Conditions Various Government and Non-Government Organisations
AI-enabled UAV for Disease Identification and Control in Cotton IIT KHARAGPUR AI4ICPS I HUB FOUNDATION
Vision Guided AI Enabled Robotic Apple Harvester CENTRE FOR DEVELOPMENT OF ADVANCE COMPUTING (CDAC)
Vision Guided AI Enabled Robotic Apple Harvester CENTRE FOR DEVELOPMENT OF ADVANCE COMPUTING (CDAC)
Smart and Sustainable Water Infrastructure - Management of Water Distribution Network using GIS and Hydraulic Modelling and the Journey to Smart Systems Apex Committee of SPARC
Chaitanya Madhaw Pareek
Area of Research: Precision Agriculture and Farm Mechanization
Vanknavath Shobhan Naik
Area of Research: Harvesting of cotton crops
Chanchal Gupta
Area of Research: Precision Agriculture
Abhishek Ranjan
Area of Research: Solar Energy Operated Equipment for Horticultural Crops
Bhavya B
Area of Research: Food Process Engineering
Vinod Choudhary
Area of Research: Design and Development of Agricultural Machines
Ravi Shankar Singh
Area of Research: Design and Development of Agricultural Machines
Harsh Nagar
Area of Research: Artificial Intelligence Applications in Agricultural Mechanisation
Ambuj
Area of Research: Path Planning Optimization for Agricultural Applications
Basani Nagaraj
Area of Research: AI enabled Drone Assisted Crop Sprayer
Ayan Paul
Area of Research: Robotic Harvester under Controlled Environment
Arundhati Boruah
Area of Research: Data Driven Precision Agriculture
Pooja Verma
Area of Research: Computer Vision and Machine Learning Applications for Crop Maturity Determination
Nuha Mohammed Adelkhier Elshiakh
Area of Research: Agricultural machinery
William Wachira Mwangi
Area of Research: Computer aided design of Agricultural Machines