2001 Volume 63 Issue 3 Pages 114-121
A tilling robots, which had almost the same performance with human operation, have been developed in the study. Three types of automated navigation systems; (1) an off-the-wire type, in which electric cables are installed around a field area, (2) a GPS type, in which an inertial measuring unit is combined with, and (3) an optical type, in which an auto-tracking type surveying system is applied, were employed for the robot accomplishing the mission in various field conditions and environments. The developed robot could obtain the accurate position and the heading angle in real time using above navigation systems. In addition, the software, which could autonomously achieve tilling on the rectangular-shape field according to the detected posture information, was also developed.
