Autonomous tractor-Driverless Tractor

1. SUNITHKUMAR H G
4NM11ME193
AUTONOMOUS TRACTORAUTONOMOUS TRACTOR

2. CONTENT
• WHAT IS DRIVERLESS TRACTOR?
• HISTORY
• TECHNOLOGY
• MANUFACTURER
• ADVANTAGES

3. DRIVERLESS TRACTOR
• A driverless tractor is a form of autonomous
technology.
• It is considered driverless because it operates
without the presence of a human inside the
tractor itself.
Like other unmanned ground vehicles, they are
programmed to independently observe their
position, decide speed and avoid obstacles such
as people, animals or objects in the field, while
performing their task.

4. HISTORY
 The idea of a driverless tractor has been around since as early
as 1940
 In the 1950s Ford developed a driverless tractor that they called
"The Sniffer" but it was never produced
 There were no major advances in driverless tractor technologies
until 1994
 Next, engineers worked on semi-automated tractors. These
tractors had drivers, but the drivers only had to steer at the end
of each row
 The idea of actual driverless tractor emerged in 2011 and 2012

5. TECHNOLOGY
• Majority of fully autonomous tractors navigate using
lasers
• These lasers are accompanied with 150 MHz radios to
deal with line-of-sight issues
• Instead of drivers, the tractors have controllers.
Controllers are people that supervise the tractors
without being inside them
• Tractors that function with supervised autonomy
use vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) technology and
communication

6. CONTD….
• There is a wireless connection between the two tractors
to exchange and share data.
• The leading tractor (with an operator) determines speed
and direction which is then transmitted to the driverless
tractor to imitate

7. MANUFACTURER
1. John Deere(Current leading manufacturer)
2. Autonomous Tractor Corporation (ATC)
3. Fendt (A Germen compony)
4. Case IH
5. CNH Global

8. ADVANTAGES
• It eliminates human error in being
able to drive a straight line for
planting or harvesting, or in putting
down only enough fertilizer.

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