Development of Environment Friendly Agricultural Robot based on Precision Farming

本研究项目主要涉及用于精准农业的农业机器人系统的开发。它主要由五个模块组成。它们是：(1)使自主导航成为可能的定位系统(2)移动系统(3)目标作物识别和必要操作的完成系统(4)目标作物的生物信息传感(4)目标作物的生物信息传感(5)全球定位系统和地理信息系统相结合的自动导航系统近三年来，上述各模块的开发工作已经完成，系统建设成功。另一方面，由于日本农业规模太小，无法将该系统应用于实际农业。将精准农业应用于规模化农业，可以发现精准农业的优点。从竞争营销体系中可以看出，采取安全措施暂时保护日本农产品是非常重要的，我们必须牢记以下两点：(1)发展技术以降低生产成本以在世界市场上具有竞争力(2)发展增值技术以使我们的产品在世界市场上更具竞争力此外，必须要求不断生产和供应满足上述条件的安全产品给消费者。大多数新开垦的大片农田都没有被利用。通过利用这些巨大的土地，在政府组织国家项目的领导下，可以实现精准农业的验证。通过本研究构建的系统的应用，我们目前面临的大部分问题都有可能得到解决。不仅是农业，工业也可以很先进，技术水平可以大幅提高。就业条件下，日本经济的激活是可以实现的。

This research project is mainly related to the development of agricultural robot system, to be used in precision farming. It consists of mainly five modules. They are as follows.(1) Positioning system to make the autonomous guidance possible(2) Mobile system(3) Objective crop recognition and completion system of the necessary operation(4) Biological information sensing of objective crop(5) Automatic guidance system combined with Global Positioning System and Geographical Information SystemFor recent three years the efforts have been done for developing each module mentioned above and the system was construced successfully.On the other hand, there can be found no possibilities of applying this system to the actual farming in Japan because of too much small scale farming. The merits of precision farming can be found when it is applied to the huge scale farming. As we can see the adoption of safe guard to protect Japanese agricultural products temporarily from the competitive marketing system, the following two are very much important and they must be kept in our mind.(1) Development of the technology to lowering the production cost to be competitive in the world market(2) development of Value -added technology to make our products more competitive in the world marketIn addition it is necessarily requested to produce and supply safe products constantly to the consumers with the satisfaction of the conditions mentioned above. Most of the newly reclaimed huge farm land are left without being used. By using those huge land, the validation of precision farming can be achieved under the governmental leadership of organizing the national project. Most of the problems we are facing now can be possibly solved by the application of the system construced in this study. Not only agriculture, but also the industry can be highly advanced and the technology laevel can be raised up drastically. Job condition, the activation of Japanese economy can be achieved.