ZigBee enabled IoT based intelligent lane control system for autonomous agricultural electric vehicle application

Abstract

The paper develops an investigative ZigBee IoT based intelligent lane control mechanism for India’s first field ready electric tractors, Sonalika Tiger Electric to operate with the chosen constraints. It employs the state-of-the-art Microcontroller based embedded system to govern the comprehensive requirements in accordance with the changes that the vehicle either experiences or becomes necessary for it to negotiate. The design involves the bounding of the parameters that include the vehicle speed, engine speed, battery SoC (State of Charge), battery SoH (State of Health), a real time GPS navigator along with Edge/ Boundary Detection Algorithm which enters the system using ZigBee enabled wireless sensors and IoT based maps to incorporate the lane control system. It primarily ensures a close monitoring methodology to develop a sequence of steps that allow the system to remain in operation over scheduled durations. The procedure involves a simulation process carried out using embedded-c firmware code to epitomize the virtues of the proposed scheme and elicit the performance of the chosen vehicle in terms of its ability to operate at the predefined constraints.

Keywords

• Electric vehicle
• Electric tractors
• IoT
• Speed control
• Micro-controller
• Embedded system