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The National Agricultural Research Center (NARC) in Japan, in a draft robot, with a fully mechanized rice production Global Positioning System (GPS) capability, transplant rice laborious with sensors and computers, which can be exercised regardless of human activity or at the use of human labor. The transplant can be a precise machine for the planning and direction of where the transplant about six inches long rice plants. Seedlings are grown over two weeks, on a mat, with Hydro-phonics culture.

Along the place mat seedlings is of the machine, and each seed in soil is planted, a number six at any time. Twenty carpet roles weigh a total of two hundred kg (280 kg.) Requires for a hectare of land. The transplantation robot machine is estimated to cost a farmer from the acquisition cost of nearly sixty thousand dollars (60000 USD).

However, the technology is still under evaluation. But once the evidence, ready for sale, the price of the device may decrease, especially for farmers in developing countries, where the old traditional methods of rice production are still widespread.

Mass production can be the same price or lower the cost of technology. The Controller Area Network (CAN) bus is set up so that the overseas operations of the family by his transplant Equipment Control Unit (ECU), where all the sensors, motors and a house all computers connected .

Before the transplant operation of the machine, in all corners of the field moving and path must be drawn. During the transplant, the computer manages the house of measures aimed at minimizing the difference in the desired value, the path of travel, the position and direction. The speed of the order of transplantation robot machine may be revised Your home computer adjustments for differences in transplant path. The main functions of a computer at the command of robots at the end of the above judgement, lifts and converts it into the next lane. As observed exemptions provided by the path is ten centimeters.

To measure the direction and angle of the machine, an inertial measurement unit (IMU), the roundabout fiber optic sensors and the use of the accelerator. NARC is, in effect, on a series of six transplant that already exists in Japan. Ninety nine percent of rice farms in Japan are already mechanized, and even rice is the transplant, according to reports in practice one hundred percent of Japanese companies.

Clearly, Japan’s rice yield is six tonnes per hectare compared with the developing countries of three and a half just tons per hectare. Registry to maximize land use and the presence of weeds cut. Japan has its own mechanized rice planters since 1966, but it was human labor in office, press the transplant, while agricultural workers, the feet are at the bottom of the knee to the ground.

With this GPS system, Japan’s rice production can be fully mechanized countries in preparing for the harvest period. NARC has proposed to lower costs in the manufacture of agricultural equipment of this technology is the compactness of the system through a combination of sensors and computers on a segment of transplanting rice harvesters, fertilizer and a tractor be divided into segments of the first step of your plan.

In the next step, they plan to develop a cartel with the autonomous Controller Area Network (CAN) bus, in conjunction with the GPS receiver, the IMU and a home computer with the rice growers.