Design of a Seedling Planting Robot Using a CNC Controller

Planting large numbers of seedlings in a short period improves the quality of life and meets basic human needs, especially in areas where forests have been damaged by fires or human activities. Planting seedlings has always been a very exhausting and time-consuming process that requires a significant amount of human effort. This article discusses the steps of designing and building an autonomous seedling planting robot (known as Nahal) that performs pit digging, precise planting, and irrigating are discussed. In addition, the idea of using a closed-loop control system of CNC machines to control the seedling robot’s operation is proposed. In this approach, the robot controller initially receives the CAD file of the land where the seedlings are to be planted along with the details of the land and the points marked for planting the seedlings and, finally, the CNC control software is used for the robot to navigate the robot through the entire planting stages.