SK YER KEROH

ROBOTIC CLUB
NRC 2018
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1. Acknowledgement.

In 2015 the global community adopted the 17 Global Goals for Sustainable Development to
improve people’s lives by 2030. Goal 2 – Zero Hunger – pledges to end hunger, achieve food
security, improve nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture, and is the priority of the World
Food Programme (WFP),(WFP Strategic Plan (2017-2021))

Researched shows that every day too many men and women across the globe struggle to feed
their children a nutritious meal. In a world where we produce enough food to feed everyone, 815
million people – one in nine – still go to bed on an empty stomach each night. Even more – one
in three – suffer from some form of malnutrition.

A statement also says that around the world, 30-40 percent of food produced is never eaten,
because it is spoiled after harvest and during transportation, or thrown away by shops or
consumers. Just because the food or vegetables does not look appealing or acceptable for
consumption.

That is the reason we build a robot to enhance the solution to reduce the food losses or rejected.
Hoping that we also can reduce or end the hunger in the world.

2. Project Mission, Vision & Objective.

Vision:
Help to reduce the food waste and end hunger.

Mission:
To reduce food waste by robotic technology.

Objective:
 To implement the automatic slicer in kitchen used.
 To promote dehydrate vegetables as a way to avoid vegetables waste.

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3. Particulars of team members and mentor.

Presentation and documentation of project:

EDRIA HANNA BINTI MOHD AZIAN
071106040130 (11 YEARS OLD)

Proposal/report of the project:

AINA SOFEA BINTI MOHD AZMI
070211030036 (11 YEARS OLD)

Designer & programmer

AMMAR HARIZ B MOHD SHAHRIL IZUAN
070601040125 (11 YEARS OLD)

Mentor
Madam Marina Binti Muhammad Kasiran
Teachers involve:
Madam Nurul Atirah Binti Sa’ad
Madam Rohana Binti Ismail

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4. Introduction
WFP said that One third of all food produced (1.3 billion tons) is never consumed. This food
wastage represents a missed opportunity to improve global food security in a world where one in
8 is hungry.

Producing this food also uses up precious natural resources that we need to feed the planet. Each
year, food that is produced but not eaten guzzles up a volume of water equivalent to the annual
flow of Russia's Volga River. Producing this food also adds 3.3 billion tonnes of greenhouse gases
to the atmosphere, with consequences for the climate and, ultimately, for food production.

That is the reason the hunger still exist in the world. RD Vege Robot will solve the problem by
reducing the waste food to be useful and help to end the hunger in the world. Regrow and reuse
the waste vegetables to consume in the most efficient way by RD Vege Robot. Dehydrate the waste
food also can reduce the waste vegetables and helps end the hunger in the world.

5. Synopsis of the project:

(a) Background.
To help end the hunger in the world, we have to start from our small kitchen itself. The waste
vegetables can be reduced by using RD Vege to make the work easier from the previous way. The
innovation strategies can make the machine as a versatile robot that stay in the house in our small
kitchen.

(b) Robot functionality.

RDVege is devide to three part :
1. Slicer machine - will function by press a touch sensor button as a switch. It able to slice
the vegetables with three blades which is move by a motor. At the bottom of the machine
is a tray to collect the vegetable slices.
2. Arm - able to grip and move the vegetable to the slicer machine. Also to collect the
vegetables trunk for regrow proses.
3. Dehydrator – to drying the vegetable slices.

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(c) Uniqueness and interactive behavior.

The RD Vege is a simple robot to operate and user friendly. It can make the work easier to make
the waste vegetables useful. It is very helpful and safety.

6. Designing and Building Process:

(a) Concept and Implementation.

RD Vege robot is can implement in backyard garden, agriculture site, restaurant and surely in our
small kitchen.

(b) Brainstorming and solution to the problem.

The team has gathered the ideas in brainstorming. Start with the problems of the hunger and the
waste of food produced that thrown by people because the vegetables or fruit rejected. Doing
researched most are from World Food Program which gave so many good information and help
the team to solve the problem by build the robot.

(c) Engineering and stability of the structures.

The member of team possibly co-operate in the process of engineering. The concept and the ways
to overcome the problems have been gathered to create the engineering. The locomotion of robot
refers to the functionality of the robot. The uses of NRC bricks and servo motor is very important
components to make sure the robot machine function as to overcome the problem stated. Another
tool that used in the machine is EV3 bricks as arm. It function is to hold the bottom of the
vegetables. If the vegetables has been finished being sliced, the arm will take the vegetable trunk
into the regrow container.

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(d) Pictures of the project.

Components:
NO Components Name

1 NXT Bricks

2 EV3

3 Servo Motor

4 Wire

5 Mindstorm Educational Lego set

6 Other components

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(e) Final model and pictures depicting different angles.

ARM

Front Top

SLICER MACHINE

Tray

Blades

DIY LEGO DEHYDRATOR

Lamp

Tray 1

Tray 2

Tray 3

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(f) Related charts.

PROBLEM EXIST

DEVICE AND EXECUTE A

SOLUTION

SOLUTION FINDING
SPECIFICATION

CONCEPTUAL MODEL CONSISTENCY CHECK SOLUTION

CONCEPTUALIZATION IMPLEMENTATION
CORRESPONDENCE CHECK

PERCEPTION PROBLEM PERCEIVED IN REALITY

REALITY

RD Vege Process Chart

Switch Arm Held Vegetables Switch RD Vege

Sliced or Cut the

Vegetables Regrow
vegetables
New Vegetables / Fruits

Vegetables Dehydrated

Less hunger
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4. Programming:

(a) Concept.
RD Vege concept is to make work easier to manage waste vegetables and transform it into new
food that can be eaten. The robot can be used by any level of age and easy to operate.

(b) Brainstorming and solution to problem.

The programmer and the members of the team also do brainstorming to generate the ideas. Mentor
also helping us by provoked the team with the high order thinking questions to realize the program
and implement to the robot.
Sketching and build the robot step by step help us to complete the project. Demonstrations and
trials are performing several times to make sure the ability of the robot can be fully functional.

(c) Printed programming with explanations.

Brick A (ARM)

Brick A is using EV3 LEGO MINDSTORM Programming. It function start with touch sensor.
Motor C will let the arm grip vegetable. The arm move forward and backward by the motor B.
The arm also can turn around by motor A.
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Brick B (SLICER)

Brick B is using NXT LEGO MINDSTORM programing. The process begin with touch sensor.
Then Motor A which hold 3 blades will rotate unlimited. Motor A will stop when touch sensor is
touch again. The loop will make the whole process repeat.

5. Appendices:

(a) Interviews
The team have interviews some of the pupils and teachers especially the team involve in School
Go Green School Team. Most of them agreed to the project that could help reduce the food waste
and end the hunger of the world.

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(b) Gantt chart.

Weeks
NO. Details
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Identify the problems
Interviews
1
Collecting data
Brainstorming
Solution 1
2
Solution 2

3 Structure of robot

4 Name the robot

5 Programming
Implementation
1st trial
6
2nd trial

3rd trial

7 Final project/report

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(c)References:

https://www.wfp.org/stories/what-causes-hunger
http://www1.wfp.org/zero-hunger
https://www.epa.gov/recycle/reducing-wasted-food-home
http://www.nxtprograms.com/robot_arm/steps.html
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/67976275602136368/
http://www.technicbricks.com/2013/01/evolution-3.html
https://www.circuitspecialists.com/pneumatic water pump
http://woulibrary.wou.edu.my/weko/eed502/systems_approach_to_educational_problem_solving
.html

(d)Softcopy of the whole project burned in CD/DVD (e.g. report,programming, slide show, video
clip and etc.).

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INTERVIEW SCRIPT LIST

NAME:______________________________

GENDER:____________________________

AGE:________________________________

QUESTIONS

1. Do you know that the world have hunger people?

2. What would you do to help end the hunger?

3. Where can you find waste food or vegetables?

4. Do you think RD Vege Rabot can help less hunger in the world if we used it constantly?

5. Do you want to use RD Vege Robot at your kitchen?

6. Comment:___________________________________________________________________

The signature of respondent,

________________________

Date:___________________

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RD VEGE ROBOTICS PROJECT

OBSERVATION CHART
KITCHEN

WEIGHT OF WASTE FOOD/VEGETABLES (g)

BEFORE AFTER

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Work photo gallery

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