Development of cloud type agricultural worker assistance system having decision making function

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25450383
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Agricultural environmental engineering/Agricultural information engineering
• Research Institution: Mie University
• Principal Investigator: MORIO Yoshinari 三重大学, 生物資源学研究科, 准教授 (90273490)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 農業ロボット / 農作業支援システム / 画像処理 / 農作業者の自動追尾 / 作業姿勢認識 / 作業行動認識 / 圃場シーン認識 / 作業進捗管理

Outline of Final Research Achievements

An agricultural robot having a decision making function that the robot could in real time formulate assistance menus for supporting a targeted worker automatically tracked by using a pan-tilt-zoom camera was developed in this study. Through the application of the robot for an actual agricultural field, the robot stored the working information to build a worker assistance robot, such as the product information, the worker behaviors, and the assistance menus for the worker. Moreover, new two functions for the robot were developed in this study. The first function enabled the robot to recognize a navigation path to autonomously travel in a field by using only an input image without using a global navigation satellite system. The second function enabled the robot to autonomously search our original markers hanged by a worker in a field by scanning the entire field. The working information acquired by the robot will be used for developing an agricultural information cloud system.

Free Research Field

農業機械学