Advanced Operation and Social Acceptability of Robotic Agricultural Machinery for Ultra-Labor-Saving Smart Production

Japan Agricultural Research Quarterly
ISSN 00213551
NII recode ID (NCID) AA0068709X
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For tremendous labor saving of land-use type agriculture, development research on remote monitoring-type uncrewed autonomous traveling systems, which enable uncrewed work in multiple fields, including movement between them, was conducted. In this system, position estimation for inter-field movement, detection of obstacles around the vehicle, and detection and recognition technology of operable farm road areas were developed as robotic implementations. An application for condition monitoring and operation of multiple robots was designed through a mobile terminal. In addition, a farm in virtual space was constructed based on a drone's survey data of the robot operation area, and a tool simulating robot movement was developed. This paper outlines the technology constituting the system and the technical problems to be solved, as well as the social issues for a practical operation of the system. In particular, given the characteristics of this system, in which an uncrewed robotic agricultural machinery autonomously travels on a road after finishing work in a field, comprehensive consultation, such as examination of the system design and social acceptability to enable the uncrewed operation, is required based on a system-operation situation under the current legal system.
Date of issued
Creator Mitsuru HACHIYA
Subject institutional design moving between farm fields smart farming social implementation vehicle-based robotic agricultural machinery
Publisher Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences
Received Date 2023-12-04
Accepted Date 2024-04-19
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Volume 59
Issue 1
spage 9
epage 15
DOI 10690/jarq.59.9
Language eng

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