1P2-W08 Development of a weeding robot for rice cultivation : System constitution of harmful weed detection and remote control(Robotics and Mechatronics in Agriculture)

Abstract

Nowadays in Japan, consciousness for food safety is increasing. Therefore the vegetables made with organic farming attract attention because they are safer. However, farmers must perform extensive hand weeding in daily farming for sustaining organic farming. The weeding work hours of farmers in herbicide-free farming is five times longer than the farming uses herbicides. The autonomous mobile robot in this study helps weeding in the organic farming. The stereo camera with pan-tilt mechanism is equipped on the robot. The operator detects harmful herbs, and remotely operates the robot arm for weeding.