Position estimation of paddy field weeding snake-like robot by GNSS

Abstract

In agricultural work, weeding paddy fields has been a difficult task in terms of both physical strength and time. To solve this problem, we developed a snake-like robot to stir the soil of the paddy. This robot needs to be able to estimate its own position. In this paper, we present development of our snake-like robot and an experiment of using GNSS as position estimation method.