Problem:

In the Philippines there are about 214,000 of tomatoes harvested per

ASPaV year. That’s equivalent to Php 17Billion if sold in the market.

However, planting in a 250 square meter land is consumes a lot of
manpower and time. Scaling that up to 1 hectare and the labor cost
will start to increase. Moreover, time consumed in manually changing
The Robotics and Automation the hardware to meet the desired seed spacing is bothersome.
Laboratory is a research laboratory
which works on robotic manipulators, Solution:
bipeds, and autonomous navigation. ASPaV is a Seed-Planting Vehicle which aims to help decrease the
Research topics under RAL may cost, both labor and time, for farmers.
include, but not limited to manipulator
dynamics, motor drives, sensor
development, and autonomous Customer Profile/Persona
vehicles. Goals and
Behavior
Aspirations
For more details about the company Name Jose Manuel Felix Very critical
Efficient
and the product, feel free to connect on lost time
farming
with us. and money
Motivations,
In-charge of fertilization Frustrations Values,
Robotics and Automation Laboratory, Beliefs
EEEI Building, Velazquez Street, UP program and farm operations
Expert in leafy vegetables and Motivation is
Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines Work Tedious
corn. Has experience with to help his
planting of
tomatoes and other crops. farmers by
high-value
lowering
Raimarc S. Dionido crops
labor
Inventor

TEAM
Consolacion, Juan Miguel Market Validation:
Maven “It would really be helpful to farmers if the prototype is fully
Magandia, Norhayla operational. For it to be used in high-value crops, it should be less
Connector root and leaf disturbance in the nursery because that’s where we
plant high value crops such as tomatoes. If it’s just dropping seeds,
Sampayan, Mark Edward then it’s good. With 2 people, we can do 250 square meter in half a
Scrum Master day manually in the nursery. Our nursery is 500 square meter in area
and about 3 meters high. But with your device, it may be faster than
that.”
Jose Manuel Felix
Board Member, South East Asia Agricultural Land Management Inc.

Competitive advantage:
ASPaV is a locally-made planting device which is:
 Easy to use: Programmable seed spacing with no hardware
adjustments
 Time-efficient: 6 hours of planting time will be saved for 500sqm
land
 Low-labor: 1 person needed to operate and Php 1,500.00 labor
cost will be saved per 500sqm of land
 Land-efficient: Accurate spacing of seeds

Recent development/status/plans:
 Paper published in 2017 IEEE International Conference on
Control System, Computing and Engineering (ICCSCE2017)
 Prototype built and tested in laboratory
 Redesign of the hardware is underway integrating the algorithm
of the inventor for seed spacing and path guiding