A Design of an Autonomous Agricultural Robot to Navigate between Rows

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10.2991/eame-15.2015.97How to use a DOI?

Keywords

ultrasonic sensor; navigation; row guidance; agricultural robot

Abstract

An ultrasonic distance measuring based row guidance method is presented to guide a robot platform which is designed independently to drive through the row crops in a field. The offset of the robot platform are detect-ed real-time for guiding the robot inside the crop row and also turn at the end of the rows to adjacent row au-tomatically. Preliminary experiments of row guidance were implemented in rose field. Experimental results show that algorithms of row guidance and headland turn are according to the parameters measured and ana-lysed such as the offset for row guidance and the difference between the motion trajectory of the robot and the expected trajectory. The accuracy of row guidance is ±70mm at the speed of 1 m/s. Tractacus got the 3rd place at free style category of FieldROBOT Event 2012 with smart spraying application which is starting to spray only if it sees the crop canopy.

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© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - I.H. Celen
AU  - E. Onler
AU  - E. Kilic
PY  - 2015/07
DA  - 2015/07
TI  - A Design of an Autonomous Agricultural Robot to Navigate between Rows
BT  - Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Electrical, Automation and Mechanical Engineering
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 349
EP  - 352
SN  - 2352-5401
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