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Field Robotics Lab
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The lab makes combine harvesters and tractors smart and automated, changing the way work is done in fields and paddies.
AboutAbout the lab
Making agricultural machines smart and autonomous
The Field Robotics lab studies how to make agricultural machines such as combine harvesters and tractors smart and automated, using image processing, GPS, and sensors.
Its work includes developing and evaluating combine harvesters that measure yield while harvesting, robotic combine harvesters that know their own position as they drive, and fertilizer-spreading machines.
Undergraduate students join the lab in their fourth year (graduate students belong to the Division of Environmental Science and Technology, Graduate School of Agriculture).
Key terms
- Combine harvester
- A harvesting machine that cuts rice or wheat and threshes it in a single unit
- Digestate
- The liquid left after methane fermentation of livestock manure and similar materials. It contains fertilizer components
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies how to automate and advance the work of agricultural machines using image processing, GPS, and sensors.
*Illustrative imageAutomatic Alignment of the Grain Unloading Auger
Aligning the unloading auger that transfers harvested grain into a transport container depends on the operator's skill. The lab is developing a system that aligns it automatically from camera images.
*Illustrative imageA Combine Harvester That Measures Yield While Cutting
The lab is developing, jointly with agricultural machinery manufacturers, a combine harvester that measures the yield of rice and wheat while harvesting.
*Illustrative imageSpreading Methane Fermentation Digestate on Paddy Fields
The digestate left after methane fermentation of livestock manure and similar materials contains components that serve as fertilizer. The lab tests and evaluates machines that spread it evenly on paddy fields as fertilizer.
*Illustrative imageTighter Turning for Articulated Vehicles
Wheel loaders, which turn by bending at the middle of the vehicle body, are well suited to tight turns. The lab studies how to apply brake control to make them turn in an even smaller radius.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Field Robotics lab are faculty members, invited international professors, administrative staff, postdoctoral researchers, and doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students.As of 2026
- ProfessorMichihisa Iida
- Assistant ProfessorMasahiko Suguri
- Assistant ProfessorRyohei Masuda
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “John Deere Combine Harvester Ebing 1799” Ermell / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Automatic Alignment of the Grain Unloading Auger: “Brent 770 grain cart and Gleaner combine” Valerie Everett / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- A Combine Harvester That Measures Yield While Cutting: “02-rice-combine-harvester” Elmschrat / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Spreading Methane Fermentation Digestate on Paddy Fields: “Manure spreader Record” werktuigendagen / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Tighter Turning for Articulated Vehicles: “Articulated DAB - Leyland in Copenhagen 1986 - Flickr - sludgegulper” Felix O / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (生物センシング工学): “Spectrometer” Jooja / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (水資源利用工学): “Heiwa Irrigation 1910 B” 作者不詳 / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (水環境工学): “Creek in wheat fields in Honjo, Saga” Peka / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (農業システム工学): “Tractor cultivating a field in Brittany” PtiBzh / CC0 (cropped)
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