Prototype of Weeding Robot Using Portable Terminal

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to develop a remote controlled weeding robot using a portable terminal. The developed weeding robots are a wheel type weeding robot and two spherical type weeding robots. The wheel type weeding robot has four-wheel drive controlling device which improves the traveling stability for paddy field. The spherical type weeding robots roll on the surface of water. In this paper, we carried out the experiments using Wi-Fi or Bluetooth communication method from the portable terminal. The effectiveness of the developed weeding robots are verified by the experiments.