ABSTRACT
Agricultural tillage plays an essential role in the farming community. There are different agricultural operations which contribute to the overall development of the crop, but among them, agricultural tillage plays an important role. Various unit operations are tillage, sowing and fertilizing, irrigation, harvesting, and post-processing activities. The chapter deals to design a four-bar mechanism for a concept known as vibratory tillage, which can be used for agricultural soil manipulation operation with improved soil properties and less power consumption. Mechanism design is through path generation process and graphical, analytical procedures are used to design a mechanism for a particular vibratory tillage tool trajectory in soil. Three and four precision methods are used to design a four-bar mechanism through which the tool follows the path very accurately. The mechanism design is validated through MATLAB, and it is confirmed that the tool passes through the selected precision points correctly. Also, it is 36found that the mechanism dimensions obtained through the graphical and analytical techniques are exact.
