Design and Manufacturing of Automated Seed Planter

Project Title

Design and Manufacturing of Automated Seed Planter

Project Area of Specialization RoboticsProject Summary

Agriculture is a dominant employment hobby of Pakistan people which determines the Pakistan financial system. The extra part of urban regions in Pakistan does now not have adequate talented exertions in the farming segment and that influences the advancement of making a nation. Hence agriculturists must use superior strategies in cultivating lands. So far Seed strewing is finished bodily by using arms and spacing among seeds becomes now not accurate whilst sowing the seeds. The traditional method of sowing seeds is accomplished with the aid of hand and in a few cases by way of scattering such that forming gaps and drip seeds by fist are applied or two bullocks are used to lift the cumbersome equipment for dropping seeds and leveling the land. Hence automation is important to clear up the problems within the agriculture zone with the aid of improving agricultural machinery. Seed sowing is a crucial task for the farmer for the duration of the plantation seasons; if seeding the land vicinity is extra it requires a number of people for sowing the seeds. In the conventional system, we cannot expert correct results because of much less seed placement and spacing of seeds by means of workers which increases the load on farmers. Hand-operated sow is distinguished in a suburb however for sizeable scale farming, the prevailing system is hard. Small scale farmers can't attempt the costs of employees at some point in this process. To reduce the efforts of farmers this machine is designed in a simplified way. This project is focused on designing and fabrication of agricultural machines that would have the capability to plant seeds automatically with less effort input from farmers. The product can be commercialized for the use of local farmers. Categorization for the purpose that every class of people can buy it depending upon the features they want to include in it. Using DC battery for its motors to run

Project Objectives

The following are major objectives to design the seed planter.

• To design a 3-D model in software and test the model using finite element analysis (FEA).
• Specify the safe loading or factor of safety in operation for a full-scale prototype from an analysis
• Fabrication of the Prototype
• Testing of the design.

Project Implementation Method

the project implementation is as follow 

• Recognition of Need

• Problem definition

• Conceptual design

• CAD Model

• Engineering Analysis

• Manufacturing

• Testing of Prototype 

Benefits of the Project

• Agriculture Robots provide an opportunity to replace human operators with a good return on investment by providing effective solutions.
• They can be small in size, allowing to accumulate near-crop data and perform mechanical weeding, mowing, spraying, and fertilizing.
• The agriculture Robot can deliver products of high quality and lower the cost of production.
• The agriculture robots can reduce the use of pesticides by up to 80% of the farm.

Technical Details of Final Deliverable

Particular	Specification
Traveling Speed	3.2 km/hr to 8 km/hr
Different varieties of maize seed	Sapeksa G277 (M1), Dracma G4662 (M2), Dracma G4662(M3)
Vacuum pressure	1.0, 2.0, 3.0 and 4.0   kPa for a metering unit
The seed distance on a row	20cm for maize
Running Time	2 to 3 hours Continuously
wheel radius	5 inches
hub motors	30 watt each motor
torque Required	11 N.m
battery capacity	10 AH
In one Round of Field	utilize  2 kg of seed

Particular Traveling SpeedDifferent varieties of maize seed Vacuum pressure The seed distance on a row Running Time  wheel radius  hub motors  torque Required battery capacity In one Round of Field Final Deliverable of the Project Hardware SystemCore Industry AgricultureOther Industries Manufacturing Core Technology RoboticsOther Technologies RoboticsSustainable Development Goals Good Health and Well-Being for People, Industry, Innovation and InfrastructureRequired Resources

Elapsed time in (days or weeks or month or quarter) since start of the project	Milestone	Deliverable
Month 1	Literature Review	To get familiar about the Seed Planter Project. in addition to this take the reviews or suggestion for farmers what they need in automatic seed planter
Month 2	Conceptual Design , Cad Modeling	Model the seed planter in virtual environment according to the needs of farmers
Month 3	Material Survey, Material Selection	To Select the appropriate material for Seed Planter
Month 4	Engineering Analysis,	To Properly Design the Automatic Seed Planter
Month 5	Arduino Programming and Trouble shooting	To Automate the seed planter and familiar about the programming
Month 6	Manufacturing and Testing	To manufacture the prototype according to our design