Noboru Noguchi

TL;DR: A review of the recent research in agricultural vehicle guidance automation in North America is presented in this article, where a conceptual framework of an agricultural vehicle navigation automation system includes navigation sensors, navigation planner, vehicle motion models, and steering controllers.

TL;DR: In this article, a real-time kinematic global positioning system (RTK-GPS) was adopted, and an inertial sensor (INS) that provides posture (roll and pitch angles) was installed in the helicopter.

TL;DR: An automatic guidance system capable of navigating an autonomous vehicle travelling between tree rows in a real-time application using a laser scanner as a navigation sensor and obtaining an accuracy of 0·11 m lateral error and 1·5 ° heading error is developed.

TL;DR: In this paper, a dual-fuel engine was developed to utilize ethanol from agricultural residue as a fuel in diesel engines, which was equipped with a system to electrically control diesel and alcohol flow rates.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used a thermal camera to take images of a field from a low-altitude helicopter for monitoring soil water status, and a method for correcting the image was developed using a principle of thermal imaging.