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STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM Major The Robotic seed sprayer tends to minimize the time margin of the farmers planting seed and fertilizing their crops. Minor Specifically this study sought to solve the following problems: 1. Too much and too little fertilization of the seedbeds 2. Spacing of the seeds in the plot 3. Number of seeds being planted in a certain plot

In a certain farm, the fertilization of the seedbeds may sometimes be too much as this causes the seeds to be poisoned and die or too little that causes the seeds to get less nutrients; sometimes it occurs that when the seeds grew as they turn to wheat they are much likely to be rip and does not taste good. Other problems may be the spacing of the seeds being plant in their respective plots other seeds grew too near with each other; the nutrients may be absorbed by the other because the plot is too crowded.

The main objective of this microcontroller based rice seed sprayer is: to help farmers in making agriculture to increase agricultural production by making it more technical to reduce labor cost in farming

Our team will operate to put the rice grain in a row at a desire depth and rice to rice grain spacing and compaction over the seed and desired row to row spacing to achieve perfect yields. In this rice seed sprayer it will improve the grain variety and increase the rice production efficiency of the farmers. Scope and Delimitations This study consists of a robot that sprays rice seeds in the field. The robotic seed sprayer will spray rice seeds precisely in terms of the spacing of the seeds in each plot and the number of seeds being plot. This study does not cover what is the quantity of rice that can be the output of each plot. We will used microcontrollers and proximity sensors to control the variable output.

Background of the Study Local Philippines is one of the biggest consumer and biggest producer of rice in the world nowadays. However it is also the biggest importer of rice on previous years. Rice is the most important food crop, a staple food in most of the country. It is produced extensively in Luzon, the Western Visayas, Southern Mindanao, and Central Mindanao. As the time passes by Green Revolution came in, wherein farmers apply some chemicals that is insecticide, fertilizers etc to ensure a good harvest, and now is it time for electronic technology to take place ?

This is the start of our goal and study. We tend to make electronics technology take place also even in agriculture. To help farmers do some difficult task in the farm, it is hard to plant palay seeds on farm it will took them a long hours to finish the work and not as accurate as it is. If we remember the song magtanim ay di biro which states that magtanim ay di biro maghapong nakayuko, di manlang makatayo, di manlang maka upo. It simply tells us how difficult it is and the time took to farm a hectare of rice field. This is now the time to design a electronics way that can help farmers do it faster, accurate and hassle free. The main problem is that as the time passes by, farmers is not as many as before. As stated above planting is not easy, planting is not a joke. Planting palay seed in the middle of the day where the heat is the main enemy. As what we all know climate also changes from time to time. Heat now gets worse. It can kill you. As what I have

figured out. Many of the farmers do the work at dawn to prevent the heat in the morning however this thing made the planting long.

The design will probably help farmers do planting easily. We tend to design a project that can do task like the farmers do. A machine that can plant palay seeds in just a couple of hours, a machine that can also spray fertilizer in the entire rice field. I am from bulacan where also one of the biggest producer of rice in the Philippines, I am one of the witness how hard to plant this rice. In our town there are two ways on how to plant it, this is what we called sabog wherein the farmers throw palay seeds (punla ) in the rice field and then afterwards farmers re organize it after the seeds where grown, some owner of the rice field uses this method to lessen their expenses however there are some seeds that is wasted. On the other hand this is so called patanim expect the expenses for this method wherein you hire a lot farmer to plant the whole rice field. This method is much expensive than pasabog.

Foreign Modern agricultural business is becoming increasingly reliant on computerbased systems, automation, and robotics that are taking over many of the tedious tasks formerly performed by humans, with superior performance in most cases. To manage the increasing complexity of agricultural systems, increasingly sophisticated methodologies are required. This has given rise to the promising field of precision agriculture, where the goal is to improve the efficiency of operation of agricultural enterprises, as well as the duality and consistency of products, by compensating for the vagueness and uncertainty of the environment. Conversely, social demand has created pressure for respectful treatment of the environment and the well-being of humans. These objectives result in new and challenging problems, problems that can only be resolved by applying advanced information and control technologies to production management of processes and farms (Sigrimis, N.).

As agriculture is extensively supported by technical means like seeding, mowing or harvesting machines, it is widely considered to be a _eld with a high potential for robotic application as it is a small step from these semi-automatically operated machines to fully autonomous robots in both greenhouse and open _eld applications. Robots are available on all development levels from experimental to market-ready in several

agricultural applications [4], but most of them are in research, where institutes have made progress to extend the existing agricultural machines to robotic systems. Comba et al. [1] have reviewed di_erent publications in the context of automated crop management. Most of the robots considered in this publication are developed for

harvesting and weed control as these are the most expensive, often manually conducted, operations in agriculture. Seeding is not yet as important since there are already good tractor based seeding systems The automatic delivery of seeds out of a seedbox onto the ground has been developed quite early in industrial history. These systems distribute the seeds in a predefined area using drums, drilling or digging devices, but none of these systems is used for precise placement of a single seed to a defined position. Also most of these systems deal with only one seed type. Nevertheless, in the last 30 years some attempts to pick up a single seed have been made. Maury [7] patented an apparatus where the seeds are placed on a rotating disk and then are shot with air pressure into the ground when their position on the disk passes the output valve. Similarly, Yaji et al. [14] use a negative air pressure to pick a seed out of a seedbox, move it to the outlet position and then apply a positive air pressure to shoot the seed into the ground. Keller et al. further developed this principle in where the seeds are picked up by a precise vacuum probe and let them fall by inverting the pressure. Their robot is not used to plant seeds, but to transfer seeds from one seedbox to another. A different approach to pick up a single seed is used by Tonus [9]. In his patent a needle moves from the ground of a seedbox to its top. The tip is designed in a way that only one seed remains on it. After reaching the top of the seedbox, the tip enters a small tube from where the seed on the tip is transported to the

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