WEEK 3 : SURVEY DISTRIBUTION/

WEEK 1 PROJECT BACKGROUND

Name of Group Members: 1) LUQMAN HAKIM BIN DZULKARNAIN 192396
2) MUHAMMAD RAZZAN BIN ROSLI 193247
3) MUHAMMAD RADZI BIN SOLIHAN 193849
Date of Discussion: 30th OCTOBER 2020 (FRIDAY)
Medium of Meeting: ZOOM
Attendance: All members are present.

1. Meeting Outcomes
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The tasks are assigned accordingly.

No Name Task
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1. Luqman Hakim Bin Dzulkarnain 1) Current Developments in Cacao
-Info on cacao (total market, what kind of products used
to make, etc)
-location of cacao in Malaysia
-advancements in cacao farming
-diseases and other factors faced by cacao
-technology and cacao
-impact of our project to the cacao industry

2. Muhammad Razzan Bin Rosli 1) Abstract

-Provide brief description of the project in one
paragraph, which states the problem, project
implementation approach, expected results, and
conclusion.

3. Muhammad Radzi Bin Solihan 1) Project Introduction

-Introduce the project background, problem statement
that indicates the importance of the project,
-The scope of the project, and the objectives of the
project.
-Provide an overall structure of the project.
-Include a description of how and why you use the
platform to implement the project.
-Define the expected performance specifications of the
design.

Discussion of all the topics.

1. Finding information about Cacao
a. Pests and Diseases
Cocoa is very susceptible to pests and diseases right from the moment the seeds are sown.
All the plant parts including the pods are affected by various pests (Conway, 1971; Pang &
Syed, 1971; Shah, 1976 and Mainstone, 1978) and diseases (Liu & Liew, 1975; Turner &
Shepherd, 1978 and Varghese, 1985). Some of them eg. rodents, pod borer, Helopeltis and
Phytophthora are capable of causing very high crop losses while VSD has destroyed many
young plantings, debilitated mature cocoa bushes and reduced yield in Sabah recently.
Currently the most important pest disease in Malaysia are the moth pod borer,
Conopomorpha cramerella and Vascular Streak Dieback (VSD) caused by a fungus
Oncobasidium theobromae . The former is confined to Sabah and Sarawak. VSD is present
throughout Malaysia.

The other common but less serious pest and diseases recorded in Malaysia include the
following:-

 Colletotrichum leaf spot and phytophthora blight in the nursery

 Civets, monkey, Dichrocrocis punctiferalis , Porthesia similis and Conopia spp . pod
pests.
 Botryodiplodia theobromae brown pod disease.
 Zuezera coffeae , Endoclita hosei , Xyleborus spp and Inderbella biciblaga stem/bark
borers.
 Phytophthora stem canker, pink disease (Corticium salmonicolor) and Marasmius
thread blight diseases on the stem.
 A wide range of Coleopteran, Lepidopteran and Orthopteran leaf eating pests
 White root (Rigidoporus lignosus) and brown root (Phellinus noxius) diseases
2. Plan of the project
1) Attach robot arm on the AGV.
2) Agv will be operated by arduino and coded for line following. (straight line only)
3) Robot arm will be made with a 2 DOF only. (single plane movement)
4) Image processing will be using opencv in python coded into the raspberry pi
5) Machine learning will be implemented either on the raspberry by itself of in a pc. We
will utilize either template machine or object recognition.
6) The spray system will be coded to spray when object has been detected (depending
on time constraint, if not it will be triggered manually)
7) Mechanical arm will not be able to move autonomously. (Depening on time, if time
permits we will attempt to make it move autonomously)

Concept Idea
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3. Hardware
1) Micro-computer: Raspberry Pi 3 B+

2) Camera: Arducam 8MP

3) AGV: Arduino Robot Car

4) Sensors: IR Sensor

5) Windshield wiper spray pump motor

6) Servo/stepper motor
4. Comment
PIC: Razzan

Comment on self:
Razzan have discussed on the technology of Iot and sensors that are suitable for smart
Farming system. They are several sensors and programming software have been identified
To be integrated with the aquaponics and hydroponics system. He also developed Google
form of our group project

Comment on Luqman :

Luqman have point out about the idea of aquaponics system. He discussed about the
suitable crops for the systsm. I think about how to integrate the aquaponics and smart
system using sensors and others. I searched for suitable concept design as our group
reference.

Comment on Radzi :
Radzi have discussed on the hydroponics system including the examples and the benefits of
hydroponics system. He also develops several concept designs that are relevant and
suitable to be integrated with the smart system.

Summary of this week:

Cerita sekali dah distribute survey. Next week kita analysis.
Our group discussion meeting about the project for week 3.

Google form link: https://forms.gle/GsAXaBu13gPX5xiV6