自律移動型農薬散布ロボットの開発

This paper describes a developed autonomous pesticide spray robot working in a plastic greenhouse. Pesticide spray of agricultural work is hard and harmful for the workers. Therefore the pesticide spray work should be replaced a human with a robot. Then it will be safe for human and reduce labor cost of agriculture. The robot has only an obstacle detection sensor which is called a laser range finder (LRF). The robot can move between plant beds using the sensor data without a collision. The robot has been developed by working with a research group of prof. Yasuno in Tokushima University and Tokunoh Syubyoh Co., Ltd.