Automated Solar-Powered Corn Planting Robot

The Philippine economy is based primarily on agriculture. Nowadays, there's a bigger need than ever for efficient and automated farming methods. Slow and poor production has been one of the major problems of agriculture. The best approach to deal with these problems is for the agricultural industry to become more automated. This leads to more systematic farming, which raises productivity rates. The purpose of this study is to design and create an automated robot that plants corn seeds automatically. To make the most of the tropical climate in the area, this automated robot is also integrated with a solar power. The Automated Solar-Powered Corn Planting Robot (ASP-CPR) was designed by the researchers with the following functions: it can drill farmed soil with a regular depth and distance and release a standard amount of corn seeds on the drilled soil automatically that follows the standard set-up of the Department of Agriculture. Upon multiple testing, results revealed the accuracy on releasing the standard number of seeds is 94%, 98 % for the depth of drilled soil, and 92% accuracy for the distance taken by ASP-CPR between planted seeds. Additionally, the researchers integrated a notification system that notifies the user if the robot experiences low power or immovability, or if the seed container is empty. Moreover, the researchers conducted a product quality evaluation ISO/IEC 25010 for 20 respondents where the gathered data and results revealed an overall weighted mean of 4.13 which indicates a strong agreement amongst respondents that ASP-CPR adhere to the quality model.