A robot platform for unmanned weeding in a paddy field using sensor fusion

This paper introduces a robot platform which can do weeding while traveling between rice seedlings stably against irregular land surface of a paddy field. Also, an autonomous navigation technique that can track on stable state without any damage of the seedlings in the working area is proposed. Dete...

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Main Authors: Gook-Hwan Kim, Sang-Cheol Kim, Young-Ki Hong, Kil-Su Han, Soon-Geul Lee
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Batteries
Land surface
Navigation
Robot kinematics
Robot sensing systems
Trajectory
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Summary:This paper introduces a robot platform which can do weeding while traveling between rice seedlings stably against irregular land surface of a paddy field. Also, an autonomous navigation technique that can track on stable state without any damage of the seedlings in the working area is proposed. Detection of the rice seedlings and avoidance knocking down by the robot platform is achieved by the sensor fusion of a laser range finder (LRF) and an inertial measurement unit (IMU). These sensors are also used to control navigating direction of the robot to keep going along the column of rice seedling consistently. Deviation of the robot direction from the rice column that is sensed by the LRF is fed back to a proportional and derivative controller to obtain stable adjustment of navigating direction and get proper returning speed of the robot to the rice column. The performance of the robot is evaluated with experiments with suitable workspace that has same weeding environment in a paddy field.
ISSN:2161-8070
2161-8089
DOI:10.1109/CoASE.2012.6386466