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)

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

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: 8-23-8 Itsutsu-ga-oka, Toyota city, Aichi, Japan 471-0814

CEO: Masayuki Kawamoto

Capital : 9.9M JPY

Capital reserve: 6.9M JPY

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Updated January, 2023