This study addresses the issues of reliable navigation using multiple sensors for essential
operation in the autonomous agricultural vehicle. The goal of this thesis is to develop a
navigation scheme for essential approaching and complete the navigational project from
yard to field with outfitted the farm implement autonomously.
The objectives of this thesis in order to reach this goal are:
z To understand the contemporary navigation systems and vehicle motion planning to
design navigation project with the absolute and relative positional information.
z To develop a robust method to discriminate the landmark from the environment, and
localization of landmark in the field.
z To develop a positioning method to navigate an autonomous tractor to approach the
implement’s position using reflector as artificial landmark.
z To develop the navigation system composed of multiple segments with reactive path
planning.
z To enable the automatic hitching of the farm implement with the autonomous tractor.