Automated three-wheel rice seeding robot operating in dry paddy fields

Abstract

Automated farming robots can help address the labour shortage issue in the agricultural sector. In this paper, a automated direct rice seeding robot is introduced. The machine is capable of controlling the number of rice seeds per dropping point as well as the distance between the dropping points, as well as navigating automatically in the paddy field. In a field test an accuracy of 92% for the number of seeds dropped and only an error of about 5 centimetres in the dropping location were achieved.