Development of a Navigation System for a Smart Farm

Abstract

Autonomous agricultural robots will be important for future smart farms. Autonomous navigation as one of the robots’ abilities, could save labors for driving vehicles and provide accurate and consistent localizations to perform farm operations. The goal of this study was to develop a navigation system that could guide a field robot to travel from a farm station to a citrus grove and visit each tree autonomously with obstacle avoidance ability. The system was developed with consideration of the concept of future smart farms, in which internet of things and big data analysis would be implemented.