Development of the Agricultural Robot in SynecocultureTM Environment –3rd Report, Evaluation of Controllability in Weed Pruning, Seed planting and Harvesting–—

Author

Sugiyama, Soma and Osawa, Kurumi and Mitani, Kento and Itoh, Akira and Kondo, Takahisa and Morita, Manahiro and Aotake, Shuntaro and Funabashi, Masatoshi and Otani, Takuya and Takanishi, Atsuo

Abstract

Currently, as measures against environmental destruction, an agricultural method called synecocultureTM has been received attention. A robot that can perform agricultural work is under development, but because it is difficult to operate in a complex environment with dense vegetation, an improved operating interface was necessary. In this study, we developed a continuous operation system for weed pruning, seed planting, and harvesting that can be operated in densely vegetated areas. By using the developed control system, a 49% reduction in operation time and a 26% reduction in collision rate with obstacles were achieved in three sequential tasks in densely vegetated areas.