Design the Future of Smart Agriculture and Forestry

Cultivate and promote technologies in  automated driving, electrification, digitalization and Low-carbonization in agriculture and forestry fields

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[ January 20, 2023 ] Homepage update


[ December 9, 2022 ]  Restart our project at the Experimental farm of Kyoto University


[ November 11, 2022 ] Transported the Autonomous SS vehicle from the Apple Research Institute in Aomori to Kyoto University farm for winter time experiment


[ September 29, 2022 ] Full function demonstration of Autonomous driving SS at apple orchard of the Apple Research Institute in Aomori Pref.


[ September 12, 2022 ] Moved the company office from Tsukuba(Ibaraki pref.) to Toyota(Aichi pref.)


[ August 26, 2022 ] Transported the Autonomous SS vehicle from University of Tsukuba to the Apple Research Institute in Aomori for actual field test.


[ July 25, 2022] The first demonstration of autonomous driving Speed Sprayer(SS) function at the experimental farm in University of Tsukuba

Our business

System design and development

  • Total system design
  • Electronics hardware development
  • Software development
  • Mechanical system development
  • Development tool design

Consulting and Lecture

  • Vehicle control technologies
  • In-vehicle communication(CAN)
  • Sensing and electronics
  • Satellite navigation application
  • Remote monitor and control

R&D collaboration

  • R&D team and network construction
  • Meeting/Consortium operation and facilitation
  • Coordination for Industry-Academia-Government collaboration

Company policies

  • Special focus on “ Actual objects in real field”  (Genchi genbutu)
  • Contribute society with interdisciplinary collaboration driven by enthusiasm, passion and ambition
  • Cultivate attractive agriculture and forestry business through digital technologies
  • Expand performance of impaired individuals for agriculture and forestry activities by utilizing digital technologies
  • Services and manufacturing that bring excitement to everyone
  • Stay niche, expand globally


Recent accomplishment(2022)

Thanks to the increase in number of Global Positioning Satellites and wide spread low cost multi-band RTK-GNSS systems,
Stable localization can be obtained even in the high density cultivated apple orchard.

This project has been proceeding in “Consortium of the Development of Smart Technology for Orchard Pesticide Spraying”, which is one of the projects on Agricultural Machine Technology Cluster funded by Bio-oriented Technology Research Advancement Institution.

Demonstration at Aomori Prefectural Industrial Technology Research Center Apple Research Institute (September and October, 2022)

Multi-band RTK-GNSS Local Base Station

Optimum control of pesticide spraying

According to the pre-learning information, pesticide spray can be done precisely only to the  of apple tree

Accomplished projects(2021)

Automated driving pesticides sprayer by utilizing machine vision technology for localization without RTK-GNSS underneath fruit trees in an orchard.

This work was supported by Cross-ministerial Strategic Innovation Promotion Program (SIP),“Technologies for Smart Bio-industry and Agriculture“(funding agency: Bio-oriented Technology Research Advancement Institution).

Field test movie: Position error correction at the final process of cornering

Introduction of ArUco marker technology

Trajectory compensation on straight path and cornering process

The entrance position guide marker at the orchard

Driving direction control by the geomagnetism

Field test movie: Test run using the geomagnetism

Demonstration movie: At University of Tsukuba

Demonstration at a dwarfed tree orchard in University of Tsukuba

The demonstration vehicle is guided by ArUco marker and geomagnetism

Company profile

Company name: i Mobility Platform Inc.

Established:  July 4 , 2017

Address: Ginza Wall bldg. UCF501, 6-13-16 Ginza, Chuo Ward, Tokyo, Japan 104-0061

CEO: Masayuki Kawamoto

Capital : 9.9M JPY

Capital reserve: 6.9M JPY

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Updated January, 2023