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Research Status and Trend of Vision and Laser in Agricultural Machinery Navigation

Jing Tang, Sihan He, Jie He
World Scientific Research Journal, (2026), Vol.12, No.4, pp.87-99
Published: April 19, 2026
DOI: 10.6911/WSRJ.202604_12(4).0007
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Abstract

With the aging of the population and the development of urban and rural integration, the shortage of agricultural productivity restricts the development of agricultural economy. The automatic navigation technology of agricultural machinery can effectively reduce the input of manpower in agricultural production, which is the key direction of agricultural machinery automation research. In the agricultural environment with lush vegetation, the signal interference is more serious, and the visual and laser sensors are less affected in this case, which is widely used in the research of agricultural machinery navigation. This paper mainly summarizes the methods of vision and laser navigation information acquisition in agricultural machinery navigation, analyzes the advantages and disadvantages of different types of sensors, and points out the research status of multi-source data fusion methods. Finally, the problems and development trends of vision and laser technology in agricultural machinery navigation are proposed.

Keywords: Vision, Lidar, Data fusion, Agricultural machinery navigation.
APA Citation: Jing Tang, Sihan He, Jie He (2026). Research Status and Trend of Vision and Laser in Agricultural Machinery Navigation. World Scientific Research Journal, 12(4), 87-99. https://doi.org/10.6911/WSRJ.202604_12(4).0007

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