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@article{203364,
        author = {Vedant .V. Pawar and Harshada .M. Pawar and Sanika .S. Chaudhari and Samruddhi .M. Argade and Divisha .M. Parmar and Prof. Parag .V. Bute},
        title = {Design and Analysis of a Terrain Traversal Rover with Color Sorting Robotic Arm},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2026},
        volume = {12},
        number = {12},
        pages = {11093-11098},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=203364},
        abstract = {Cost-effective robotic sorting across uneven terrain remains an unsolved challenge in small-scale agriculture and material handling. This work presents a low-cost, modular robotic platform combining a manually operated rocker-bogie rover with a 4-DOF robotic arm. A dual-controller architecture — an ESP32 for mobility and an Arduino for arm operation — decouples navigation from manipulation, while a TCS color sensor enables real-time color- and size-based object classification. Rather than pursuing full autonomy, the platform adopts a constraint-aware design philosophy that prioritizes task-level autonomy at the point of manipulation. Performance is validated through physical sorting trials evaluating classification accuracy and arm reliability, demonstrating that meaningful agricultural automation is achievable through targeted autonomy, modular design, and low-cost hardware integration.},
        keywords = {Rocker-Bogie Mechanism, Mobile Rover, Pick-and-Place, Color Sorting, Color-Based Object Classification, Robotic Arm, Mobile Platform},
        month = {May},
        }