Implications

Future Work

This project could continue onward by addressing how to tackle the issue of gravitropism. Gravitropism is the inability for seedlings to know which way to send the roots during germination due to a lack of gravity. The team has thought of an idea to add a germination chamber to our current design. In the germination chamber, the seeds would be moistened on a flat surface but covered with an absorbent material, so that they will not move around. As the seeds germinate, a robotic arm with a green color sensor will peel the absorbent material and pick each seedling one by one and fit them into a medium before sending them off to the main chamber. This would take this project to the next level and further the development of this topic in research.

This project has laid out a foundation to build off of to create more produce cultivation machinery in the future. This project has started a general pathway into automating the process of growing plants in space. This design can be altered for different plants with minor modifications to allow more growing space and eventually build a fully self-sustaining system by collecting seeds from the plants and furthering the sustainability of growing plants. Another possibility of furthering the application of this design is to implement it within indoor farming on earth. Using the concepts of this design, they could be altered and expanded to work for indoor farming on a large scale.

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