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Universal Journal of Control and Automation(CEASE PUBLICATION) Vol. 8(2), pp. 32 - 39
DOI: 10.13189/ujca.2020.080202
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Design and Development of an Automatic Controlled Planting Machine for Agriculture in Palestine
Mohammed Amer 1,2,*, Ayman Yahya 1, Ahmad Daraghmeh 1, Rami Dwaikat 1, Bashir Nouri 1
1 Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, An-Najah National University, P.O. Box 7, 00970 Nablus, Palestine
2 Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu 300, Taiwan
ABSTRACT
The agriculture sector occupies more than 25% of the total gross domestic products in Palestine. This provides jobs for more than 15.2% of the population in West Bank and Gaza Strip. The cultivated land is over 1.854 million dunum. However, people still using traditional ways of planting which would consume time and effort. Agriculture faces huge costs and transplant losses during planting. In this study, an automated planting machine has been introduced. This machine is a hand to the agriculture sector in Palestine. It is proposed to increase the speed and precision of planting. It is designed to do the basic cultivation steps by transmitting the transplant gently to the land. The study focused on the plants used in Palestine considering their dimensions and the distance between each two neighbor seedlings. The simulation and experimental results for the prototype showed an accurate functioning of the controlled system. Besides a precise and a smooth processing during planting, the basic planting steps were done in a satisfied way from plowing passing through planting to cover it with soil. By designing this machine, main concerns could be achieved as human needs, cost, and time saving.
KEYWORDS
Agriculture, Automatic, Farming, Planting, Planting Machine
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(a). IEEE Format:
[1] Mohammed Amer , Ayman Yahya , Ahmad Daraghmeh , Rami Dwaikat , Bashir Nouri , "Design and Development of an Automatic Controlled Planting Machine for Agriculture in Palestine," Universal Journal of Control and Automation(CEASE PUBLICATION), Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 32 - 39, 2020. DOI: 10.13189/ujca.2020.080202.
(b). APA Format:
Mohammed Amer , Ayman Yahya , Ahmad Daraghmeh , Rami Dwaikat , Bashir Nouri (2020). Design and Development of an Automatic Controlled Planting Machine for Agriculture in Palestine. Universal Journal of Control and Automation(CEASE PUBLICATION), 8(2), 32 - 39. DOI: 10.13189/ujca.2020.080202.