2008 Volume 70 Issue 3 Pages 82-88
Tilling Robot can perform unmanned rotary tilling at a practical level. To improve the robot's adaptability to a variety of fields and operations, the operation overlap width and the path sequence were made variable in the unmanned operation procedure. New procedures of “diagonal operation”, in which the robot returns in a straight path diagonal to the field orientation, and “round operation”, in which the robot operates the whole field in straight paths parallel to each of the four field borders, have been discussed, and their operation software has been developed. Field tests confirmed that the unmanned operations with these procedures were successful.
