Affiliation:
ProfessorHokkaido University
Sapporo, Japan
Title:
Agriculture robot (automatic tractor)
Abstract:
In Japan, the number of farmers is decreasing and aside from the fact the problem in aging farmers. In the near future, Japan farmers will decrease rapidly that will result to shortage in food production. Robot farming system is one of the possible solutions to solve the food shortage production. This presentation will give the application of robot vehicles in agriculture using new technologies. The robot framing system will fully automate the farming from planting to harvesting until to the end user of the products. The robot vehicles such as a robot tractor and a robot combine harvester can perform its designated tasks and can work simultaneously with each other.
Biography:
Dr. Noguchi has made many contributions to both industries and universities in the area of applications of advanced technologies to agricultural systems. He is highly recognized internationally for his contributions in robotic applications on off-road equipment. Dr. Noguchi used to be an adjunct associate professor in the University of Illinois to develop the field robot by collaborating with U.S. industries. He was the first researcher who developed a fully autonomous field robot in the world in 1997 with National Research Institute of Agricultural Machinery in Japan. Due to his outstanding achievements on automation technologies in production agriculture, he received two academic awards from major international academic societies; the American Society of Agricultural Engineers (ASAE) and International Commission of Agricultural Engineering (CIGR). Lately, he is devoting to develop a small-sized orchard robot applying a sensor-fusion algorithm. Using his algorithm, even though GPS is invalid situation, the robot can run autonomously based on a local sensing system composed of a laser scanner and a stereo vision. In addition, the sensing system also has a function of obstacle detection and avoidance. And, he is also developing an intelligent machine vision for an agricultural mobile robot.