Development of Weeding Robot

• Project/Area Number: 23651076
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Environmental technology/Environmental materials
• Research Institution: Kanagawa Institute of Technology
• Principal Investigator: YAMAMOTO Keijirou 神奈川工科大学, 創造工学部, 教授 (00257411)
• Project Period (FY): 2011 – 2012
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2012)
• Budget Amount: ¥3,900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥900,000); Fiscal Year 2012: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000); Fiscal Year 2011: ¥2,600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥600,000)
• Keywords: 環境保全技術 / 除草ロボット / 除草 / 自動化 / ロボット / 傾斜地 / 圃場

Research Abstract

For automation of the weeding work in the farm, an autonomy type weeding robot system was developed. The robot system consists of a carrier robot and a weed cutting robot equipped on the carrier robot. The carrier robot ran footpaths between the fields by tire and the cutting robot ran the inclined fields by crawler.