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APPROVAL SHEET

This Capstone Project entitled “Hydraulic Drive Systems; A Remote-Controlled

Hydraulic Excavator” prepared and submitted by Mr. Jerome Earl D. Agbuya, Mr.

Peter Earl C. Borgonia, Ms. Danica S. Guevarra, Ms. Arianne Klein D. Lozano, Ms.

Kathryn Caxandra T. Luna, Ms. Czerika Mae M. Manansala, and Mr. Mc Gregor G.

Tambag, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the subject Capstone Research

Project, has been examined and found in order and is hereby recommended for acceptance

and approval for Oral Examination.

MR. MIKKO C. MONTEMAYOR

Capstone Research Project Adviser

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

The researchers of this study would like to give their fullest gratitude to the

following individuals who helped them pursue and accomplish this undertaking.

To Ms. Estrellita P. Muli, the School Directress of St. Augustine Academy of

Pampanga, who made the Senior High School Department possible; for without her, the

institution will not be a successful and efficient venue of learning for the students.

To Mrs. Ferlie M. Rubio, MAEd, the Senior High School Principal, who helped in

fostering the Senior High School; without her commitment to her duty, the department,

along with the students, will not nurture as abundant as they had today.

To Mr. Mikko C. Montemayor, the Capstone Research Project adviser of the

researchers, who was always willing to instill the love of learning to his students, who was

also positive enough to influence the researchers toward attaining a greater product of their

study, and who ceaselessly sacrificed his time and effort in focusing on the researchers’

progress; the endeavor of his work are always appreciated and prized by the researchers of

this study.

To the whole Senior High School faculty, who gratefully entertained the

researchers’ queries, who served as the providers of knowledge for the researchers, and

who constantly delivered strength and encouragement to the researchers; their efforts are

greatly appreciated.

To the whole SAAP community, most especially the students under the STEM

strand, who genuinely answered the survey questionnaires to aid in the results of this study.

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To the community outside the institution, who served as the respondents of this

study, and who greatly acknowledged the product of this study; the researchers are

sincerely grateful.

To the researchers’ family, their parents, siblings, and friends who served as their

primary source of inspiration and motivation to carry out vivid results for the study.

And most importantly, to the Beholder, the researchers’ gratitude are highly raised

to Him, for His everlasting goodness and virtuousness is always present.

J.E.D.A.

P.E.C.B.

D.S.G.

A.K.D.L

K.C.T.L.

C.M.M.M.

M.G.G.T.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chapter 1 :THE PROBLEM AND ITS SETTING .......Error! Bookmark not defined.
Introduction ....................................................................Error! Bookmark not defined.
Statement of the Problem ................................................................................................ 3
Significance of the Study ................................................................................................ 4
Scope and Delimitation ................................................................................................... 5
Definition of Terms ......................................................................................................... 6
Chapter 2: SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE ...................................................................... 8
Related Literature ............................................................................................................ 8
Chapter 3: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY............................................................... 10
Study Area ..................................................................................................................... 10
Research Design ............................................................................................................ 10

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Conceptual Framework ................................................................................................. 10

Diagram of Work .......................................................................................................... 12
Sample and Data Collection Technique ........................................................................ 12
Materials ........................................................................................................................ 13
Procedures ..................................................................................................................... 16
Statistical Treatment ...................................................................................................... 24
Chapter 4: RESULTS AND DISCUSSION .................................................................. 26
Water pressure needed .................................................................................................. 26
Disadvantages of the hydraulic drive system ................................................................ 28
Impact to the environment............................................................................................. 30
Chapter 5: SUMMARY, CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS ............. 34
Summary of Findings .................................................................................................... 34
Conclusions ................................................................................................................... 34
Recommendations ......................................................................................................... 35
Bibliography .................................................................................................................... 36

LIST OF TABLES/FIGURES

TABLES ...............................................................................................................................
Table 1 ........................................................................................................................... 25
Table 2 ........................................................................................................................... 27
Table 3 ........................................................................................................................... 29
Table 4 ........................................................................................................................... 31
Table 5 ........................................................................................................................... 32
Table 6 ........................................................................................................................... 33
FIGURES .............................................................................................................................
Figure 1 ......................................................................................................................... 11
APPENDICES .....................................................................................................................

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Appendix A ................................................................................................................... 38
Appendix B ................................................................................................................... 39
Appendix C ................................................................................................................... 43
Appendix D ................................................................................................................... 45

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